and his audition was sound; he supported himself through his own earnings.
Ibn Nāṣir said: Zāhir al-Shaḥḥāmī told me that he had heard from him, adding, “He had no real grasp of hadith, and he was an extreme Karrāmī.”
Abū Saʿd the ḥāfiẓ al-Samʿānī said: “He was righteous and chaste, of upright conduct. My grandfather narrated from him in his Amālī.”
He died sometime around 470 AH (1), and was born before 390 AH.
The term “Karrāmī” is traced back to Ibn Karrām (2), the innovator.
204 – Abū Muslim al-Laythī ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad *
The shaykh, the imam, the muhaddith, the teacher, the inveterate traveller, the globe-trotter: Abū Muslim ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Layth al-Laythī, al-Bukhārī.
He heard from: Abū Sahl ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kalābādhī; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Khanbāj; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥāḍir al-Harrās; the ḥāfiẓ Yūsuf ibn Manṣūr al-Sayyārī; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAlī al-Imām; and several others.
At Samarkand he heard from: al-Muṭahhar ibn Muḥammad al-Khāqānī and Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Ṭabasī.
At Kashsh: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥalwāʾī, the jurist.
At Balkh: Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Mustamlī.
At Ghaznah: Muẓaffar ibn al-Ḥusayn; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Dīnawarī al-Labbān; and Saʿīd al-ʿAyyār.
At Herat: ʿAṭāʾ ibn Aḥmad.
At Būshanj: Manṣūr ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Tamīmī.
At Marw: Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad