Hibat Allāh ibn Tāwūs, Ibn Nāṣir, Ibn al-Baṭṭī, and a number of others.

He was a Ḥanafī jurist and the Friday preacher in al-Anbār. He lived to a great age, and people traveled to seek him out.

Al-Samʿānī said: “He was trustworthy, distinguished, truthful, long-lived, and a reliable transmitter (1). His narrations spread to every region. He had lost one hand—it was severed during the Basāsīrī uprising—and he would come to Baghdad from time to time and relate ḥadīth.”

I asked Ismāʿīl the ḥāfiẓ about him, and he replied, “Trustworthy.”

Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣadafī said: “He told me that, while still a boy, he once asked the study circle of Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāyīnī whether touching the male organ requires ablution.

“He also said to me, ‘I saw Yaḥyā, the grandfather of my grandfather, and today I myself am a great-grandfather.’

“I have not met anyone else who narrates from al-Faraḍī except him. From al-Faraḍī he possesses only two ḥadīths.”

I say: both of those ḥadīths have reached me.

He died in Shawwāl, 486 AH; Ibn Nāṣir recorded the date.

Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Khaṭīb al-Anbārī said: “Al-Basāsīrī ordered our forefather ʿAlī the preacher to deliver the sermon in the name of al-Mustanṣir, the ruler of Egypt. When he ascended the pulpit, however, he invoked blessings for al-Qāʾim instead and did not carry out al-Basāsīrī’s command, so al-Basāsīrī ordered that his hand be cut off on the pulpit (2).”

305 – Ibn al-Ustād, Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbbād al-Dīnawarī *
The shaykh, the truthful one, the principal transmitter of Dīnawar, Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā