al-Fudaylī (1), Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Qūmusānī, the ascetic of Hamadhān (2), and Abū al-Khayr al-Ṣaffār (3).
196 – al-Fudaylī, al-Fuḍayl ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Fuḍayl
The shaykh, jurist, imam, and ḥadith transmitter, Abū ʿĀṣim al-Fuḍayl ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Fuḍayl al-Fudaylī, al-Harawī.
He narrated from: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Shurayḥ al-Anṣārī; Abū ʿAlī Manṣūr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khālidī; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān, the verifier; and a number of others.
Reported from him were: ʿAbd al-Salām Bakbara; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī; Abū al-Waqt ʿAbd al-Awwal al-Sijzī; and other individuals whose names do not presently come to mind.
Birth: in the year 383 AH.
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “He was a jurist of upright character, trustworthy and truthful; he lived to a great age, and a large amount was transmitted from him.”
Death: in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 471 AH (4).
Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Wāsiṭī, Abū Bakr Ibn Khaṭīb Bayt al-Ābār, and a group reported to us; they heard Abū al-Munajjā ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, who said: ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿĪsā informed us; al-Fuḍayl ibn Yaḥyā informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baghawī narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd narrated to us; Shuʿbah informed us, from Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭāʾ—