, ibn ʿUtba ibn Abī Sufyān ibn Ḥarb ibn Umayya—the Umayyad, the Sufyānid, al-Hakkārī (1).

It was also said that the name Khālid was dropped from his lineage between al-Walīd and al-Qāsim (2).

Al-Samʿānī remarked: “He withdrew to the mountains in solitary obedience to Allah, building ribāṭs (lodgings on the frontier) and shelters where the poor and those cut off from society could find refuge. He engaged abundantly in worship, excelled in asceticism, was well-regarded, and carried himself with dignity.”

He travelled in pursuit of learning. In Egypt he heard hadith from Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Naẓīf al-Farrāʾ; in Baghdad from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Bishrān; in Ramla from Ibn al-Tarjumān; and in Mecca from Abū al-Hasan ibn Ṣakhr.

Among those who narrated from him were Yaḥyā ibn ʿAṭṭāf, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan al-Fārisī, Ḥasan ibn Abī ʿAlī the reciter, and others.

ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Karajī said, “I have never seen anyone comparable to Shaykh al-Islām al-Hakkārī in asceticism and virtue.”

Yaḥyā ibn Manda said, “He came to us: a man devoted to prayer, worship, and earnest striving, counted among the foremost of the Sufis.”

Ibn ʿAsākir, however, commented, “His transmission of hadith was not considered reliable.” (3)