Abu Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Hamadānī said, “I performed the pilgrimage in the year 463 AH, and while we were still on the road the death of Karīmah was announced to us, so I never had the chance to meet her.
111 – Ibn al-Khālah Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Sahl al-Wāsiṭī
The erudite authority, master of belles-letters, Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Sahl ibn Bishrān al-Wāsiṭī, the linguist, the Ḥanafī, whose reliability was affirmed.
His maternal grandfather was the cousin of the ḥadith scholar Abū al-Ḥusayn (1) ibn Bishrān.
Abū Ghālib was born in 380 (2) AH.
He studied under Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Kurdān the grammarian, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Dīnār, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAlawī, Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Bīrī, Abū al-Faḍl al-Tamīmī, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥumaydī, Hibat Allāh al-Shīrāzī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jullābī, and many more, while Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Samarkandī did so by written authorisation.