76 – al-Sarkhasi, al-Fadl ibn ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn al-Fadl
The shaykh, scholar, jurist, and centenarian—Abu al-ʿAbbas al-Fadl ibn ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn al-Fadl al-Sarkhasi, later of Nishapur—was a Hanafi and a merchant.
He heard (hadith) from: Abu al-Qasim ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad al-Sarraj; Ibn ʿAbdan; Abu Sahl ibn Hasnuwayh; the judge Abu Bakr al-Hiri; Saʿid ibn Muhammad the judge; Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn ʿUbayyah al-Marwazi al-Anbari in Marw; and Abu Sahl al-Kalabadhi in Bukhara.
He was born in 400 AH and came to Baghdad in 410 AH with his father on a trading journey.
Al-Samʿani said, “He was an elderly, long-lived shaykh, of excellent character, blessed and wealthy. From him my uncle al-Hasan narrated to us, as did Abu Tahir Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Sinji, Abu Mudar al-Tabari, ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Farawi, Nasir ibn Salman al-Ansari, and many others.”
He added, “I read in the handwriting of Ismaʿil ibn ʿAbd al-Ghafir that they demanded from this Fadl two thousand dinars, seized him, and beat him. Ibn Saʿid stood surety for him. He lingered only a few days and died in Jumada I of 494 AH. They found nothing with him, for his son and his companions had fled. He was uncompromising in the school of Abu Hanifah.”
In that same year there died: Abu al-Fadl Ahmad ibn ʿAli ibn al-Furat in Damascus (1), and he was