entitled Tahdhīb al-Ṭālib (1); he also composed a creed, and a number of leading imams (2) studied under him.

He died in Alexandria in 466 AH. He performed the pilgrimage several times and, in Mecca, debated Abū al-Maʿālī, the Imām of the Two Sanctuaries, engaging him in scholarly discussion. Praised for his intelligence and graceful style, he wrote a critical supplement to al-Barādhiʿī’s Mukhtaṣar (3) and produced many pupils. He was a Qurashī from Banū Sahm.

142 – ʿĀʾisha bint Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Iṣbahānīyah *

The preacher, scholar, and hadith authority, Umm al-Fatḥ al-Iṣbahānīyah, known as al-Warkāniyah (4).

Warkān is a quarter of the city (5).

She copied the imlāʾ sessions of Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manda in her own handwriting. She also heard hadith from Muḥammad ibn Jashnis—the transmitter of Ibn Ṣāʿid—from ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Shāh, and from others.

Among those who narrated from her were al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Khallāl, Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ, and the ḥāfiẓ Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad.

Ibn al-Samʿānī relates: “I asked the ḥāfiẓ Ismāʿīl about her, and he said, ‘A righteous, learned woman; she preaches to women, and she copied Ibn Manda’s amālī directly from him.’”

She was the first to