and Abū Yūsuf al-Qazwīnī (1); al-Faḍl ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Ḥarb, Abū al-Qāsim al-Jurjānī (2); the vizier Ẓahīr al-Dīn Abū Shujāʿ Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Rūdhrawārī (3); al-Muʿtamid ibn ʿAbbād, the ruler of al-Andalus, who died in prison (4); Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Baghawī, known as al-Dabbās (5); Baghdad’s judge Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Shāmī (6); the ḥadith scholar al-Ḥumaydī (7); and Najīb ibn Maymūn al-Wāsiṭī (8) in Herat.
326 – Abū Yūsuf al-Qazwīnī ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Muḥammad *
The shaykh, erudite scholar, and brilliant master; the leading and most eminent figure among the Muʿtazila. He is Abū Yūsuf ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Bundār al-Qazwīnī, the Qur’an exegete who resided in Baghdad.
He heard ḥadith from Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī and from the judge ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Aḥmad, and others received knowledge from him.
(1) His biography will be given immediately after the present entry.
(2) His biography will appear in Volume 19, no. 26.
(3) His biography will appear in Volume 19, no. 17.
(4) His biography will appear in Volume 19, no. 35.
(5) His biography will appear in Volume 19, no. 1.
(6) His biography will appear in Volume 19, no. 47.
(7) His biography will appear in Volume 19, no. 63.
(8) His biography will appear in Volume 19, no. 23.
(*) Sources: Ibn Asakir, Tarikh, 10/163/2; Ibn al-Jawzi, Al-Muntazam, 9/89–90; Al-Tadwin fi Tarikh Qazwin, fols. 224b–245b; Ibn al-Athir, Al-Kamil, 10/253; Al-Dhahabi, Duwal al-Islam, 2/17; idem, Al-Ibar, 3/321; idem, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 4/1208; Uyoon al-Tawarikh, 13, fols. 5–6; Mirat al-Janan, 3/147; Al-Subki, Tabaqat, 5/121–122; Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 12/150; Al-Jawahir al-Mudiyya, 2/421–422; Ibn Hajar, Lisan al-Mizan, 4/11–12; Al-Nujum al-Zahira, 5/156; Al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Mufassirin, 67–68; Al-Dawudi, Tabaqat al-Mufassirin, 1/301–302; Al-Tabaqat al-Saniyya, no. 1243; Kashf al-Zunun, 1/634; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 3/385; Hadiyyat al-Arifin, 1/569.