al-Hāshimī, whereas his cousin had heard the entire work. The cousin died long ago, so the judge erased his cousin’s name and inserted his own.
Al-Samʿānī said: I asked Abū Saʿīd al-Baghdādī about Abū Manṣūr ibn Shakruwayh. He replied, “He was an Ashʿarī; he would not greet us and we would not greet him, yet his audition was sound.”
Yahyā ibn Manda said: He was the judge of the village of Sīn (1).
He travelled to Basra and heard hadith from al-Hāshimī and others.
Birth: 393 AH.
Death: on the twentieth of Shaʿbān, 482 AH (2).
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Ṭāhir, Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī, Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Miṣṣīṣī, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṭāwūs, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Rustamī, Abū Saʿd ibn al-Baghdādī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Adamī, al-Junayd ibn Muḥammad al-Qāyinī, and others.
257 – al-Jawharī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān *
The shaykh, musnid, and trustworthy recorder Abū ʿAṭāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī ʿĀṣim al-Harawī al-Jawharī.
He narrated from Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Mālīnī, Abū Muʿādh al-Shāh, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Azdī, Ḥātim ibn Abī Ḥātim Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb, and a group of others.