and Localities), and Kitab al-Nabat (The Book of Plants).
He was a genuine storehouse of merit.
Among those who transmitted from him were Muhammad ibn Maʿmar al-Maliqi, Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn al-Lakhmi, and a number of others.
He died in 487 AH.
- Al-Bakri the Storyteller — Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allah
As for the mendacious storyteller al-Bakri, he is Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Bakri, an itinerant fabricator who feels no shame for the countless lies with which he stuffed his collections and compilations (1). He is a bigger liar than Musaylima; I suspect he lived in our own era.
- Najib ibn Maymun ibn Sahl ibn ʿAli, Abu Sahl al-Wasiti *
The venerable shaykh and principal transmitter of Herat, Abu Sahl al-Wasiti, later known as al-Harawi.
His father settled in Herat and arranged for him to study with: Abu ʿAli Mansur ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Dhuhli, Rafiʿ ibn ʿUsm al-Dabbi, Hatim ibn Muhammad al-Harawi, and Ahmad ibn