al-Muṭṭawʿī (1), who said, “Abu Muslim al-Kajjī narrated to us …,” and he went on to relate a hadith.

ʿAbd al-Ghafir said: “Hibat Allah was a chaste, upright Sufi shaykh who travelled widely. His handwriting was famed, and he provided a wealth of benefits.”

Abu Nasr al-Fashani said: “Whenever I visited Hibat Allah in the ribat, he would take me out to the open plain and say, ‘Recite here, for the Sufis become annoyed with those who busy themselves with knowledge and hadith (2); they say, “They are disturbing our moments.”’”

Hibat Allah died in 486 AH. Another report says 485 AH, in Ramadan; it was also said that on the night he died he held seventy gatherings, each time performing istinjaʾ (ritual cleansing) with water.

12 – al-Nasihī, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Husayn
The distinguished scholar, Chief Judge, and leading Hanafi authority, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Husayn al-Nasihī of Nishapur.

He studied under the judge Abu Bakr al-Hīrī, Abu Saʿid al-Sayrafī, and a number of others, and he taught in Baghdad and Khurasan.

Among those who transmitted from him were Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahid al-Darraq, ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn al-Anmati, Abu Bakr ibn al-Zaghuni, and others.