al-Muṭahharī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Surkhakati (1), together with others.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Nakhsabī said, “He narrated abundantly, with a sound audition, though there is some frivolity in him.”
I say: he is the grandson of the traditionist Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Khanb (2).
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī recorded that he died sometime after the year 460 AH (3).
The last man to relate from him was the “Pillar of Islam,” Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Naṣr al-Ṣaffārī, the shaykh of Qāḍī Khān (4).
82 – Ibn Shama, ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn ʿUmar ibn Mūsā al-Iṣfahānī
The esteemed shaykh, Abū al-Ṭayyib ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn ʿUmar ibn Mūsā ibn Shama—pronounced with a short vowel and no doubling (5)—al-Iṣfahānī, the merchant, who transmitted the book “al-Sunan” of Abū Qurra al-Zubaydī al-Yemeni from Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ.
(1) The manuscript reads “al-Sarakhki,” which is incorrect. The proper form is the one adopted in the text: “al-Sarakhkati,” derived from Sarakhkat—spelled with an additional t after the kaf—a small town in Gharjistan, near Samarqand; see al-Ansab 7/70, al-Lubab 2/112-113, Tabsir al-Muntabih 2/732. By contrast, “al-Sarakhki” refers to Sarakhk, a village in the district of Nishapur.
(2) For this reason al-Samani listed him under the nisba “al-Khanabi,” attaching it to his grandfather Khanb.
(3) Al-Ansab 5/189; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 3/1158 (obituaries for 461 AH).
(4) This is the judge Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Baqi ibn Muhammad al-Ansari al-Baghdadi al-Hanbali al-Bazzaz (d. 535 AH); his biography will appear in volume 20, no. 12.
(*) Sources: al-Taqyid, fol. 145/2; al-Istidrak, vol. 2, fol. 62; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 3/1135; al-Ibar 3/242; Tabsir al-Muntabih 2/789; Shadharat al-Dhahab 3/305.
(5) In the manuscript the word is pointed both with fatha and kasra over the shin, with the note “both” added above. Tabsir al-Muntabih 2/789 records it as “Shimma” (with kasra; some say with fatha, and the mim open). It was misread as “Samh” in al-Ibar and further corrupted to “Shamasa” in Shadharat al-Dhahab.