Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Daqqāq relates: “I asked him about the year of his birth, and he replied, ‘In 366 AH.’

I add: The last person to narrate from him was the long-lived Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī al-Hammāmī, who transmits from him a carefully verified collection.

Others who reported from him include Nāḍir—with the emphatic ḍād—ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Madīnī, together with a number of the younger shaykhs from whom al-Silafī received knowledge.

He passed away in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 459 AH (1).

His Qurʾānic commentary was kept in Egypt by the Imām al-Sharaf al-Mursī (2).

He lived for ninety-three years.

Among those who transmitted from him were Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ al-Ṣayrafī, al-Ḥusayn al-Khallāl, and Muḥammad ibn Ḥamd al-Kibrītī.

80 – al-Sarawī, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā

The eminent imam, leading authority of the Shāfiʿī school, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Sarawī al-Shāfiʿī—also called al-Muṭahharī, after the village of Muṭahhar, the second radical carrying a fatḥah and pronounced with the heavy ḥāʾ (3)—was born around 360 AH in the town of Sāriyah.