and Muḥammad ibn Jāmiʿ, the wool-carder. Among the works he received by direct audition was the History of Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, which he heard from Ibn al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān, who in turn related it from Ibn Durustawayh, from the author himself.
ʿAbd al-Ghāfir al-Fārisī—or someone else—said: “He studied law under Abū Bakr al-Ṭūsī, convened a dictation circle, and benefited many people. He was born in 397 AH and died in 479 AH, having attended audition sessions from a very early age.”
In that same year the following passed away: the Shaykh of Shaykhs Abū Saʿd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Dūst (1) in Baghdad; Jaʿbar ibn Sābiq al-Amīr (2); Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al-Shaḥḥāmī (3); Sulaymān ibn Qutulmish, lord of Konya (4); Abū ʿAlī al-Tustarī (5); ʿAlī ibn Faḍḍāl al-Mujāshiʿī, the grammarian (6); Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ṣarrām (7); and the leading musnid of his time, Abū Naṣr al-Zaynabī (8).
230 – Ibn al-Lalkāʾī Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan *
The jurist, Abū Bakr Muḥammad, son of the ḥāfiẓ Hibat Allāh (9) ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Manṣūr,
(1) His biographical notice will appear under no. 254.
(2) His biographical notice will appear under no. 282.
(3) His biographical notice will appear under no. 231.
(4) His biographical notice will appear under no. 232.
(5) His biographical notice will appear under no. 245.
(6) His biographical notice will appear under no. 268.
(7) His biographical notice will appear under no. 247.
(8) His biography has already been given immediately before the present entry.
(*) Sources: Al-Ansab, s.v. “al-Lalakāʾi”; Ibn al-Jawzi, Al-Muntazam, 8/324–325; Ibn al-Athir, Al-Kamil fi al-tarikh, 10/117; Ibn al-Athir, Al-Lubab, 3/401; Ibn al-Salah, Tabaqat, fol. 36b; Al-Wafi bi-l-wafayat, 5/151; Al-Subki, Tabaqat, 4/207–208; Al-Isnawi, Tabaqat, 2/366–367. Al-Lubab explains that the nisba “al-Lalakāʾi” is spelled: lām, alif, lām, kāf with fatḥa, an inactive alif, then yāʾ, and it refers to those who sell “lawālik,” a kind of leather used for making sandals.
(9) The biography of Hibat Allah, the father of the present subject, appeared in vol. 17 under no. 274.