my father. I said to him, “Master, what has Allah done with you?” He replied, “He has forgiven me.”

Abu al-Ḥusayn passed away in Shaʿbān of the year 492 AH.

Shujāʿ al-Dhuhlī said, “He was reliable and scrupulously exact.”

Abu Naṣr al-Yūnartī stated in his Muʿjam, “He was one of the God-fearing imams.”

He kept the company of Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qazwīnī for a time, studied jurisprudence and literature, and was unparalleled in his conduct. Whenever he came out to meet us he would lean out of humility, and he never rose to leave our gathering without first asking permission.

90 – Ibn Wadʿān, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Mawṣilī*

The eminent shaykh and judge of Mosul: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Sulaymān ibn Wadʿān al-Mawṣilī.

He made repeated journeys to Baghdad and, toward the end of his life, narrated ḥadith there.

He said, “I was born on the night of mid-Shaʿbān in the year 402 AH, and I belong to Rabīʿah al-Faras (1). My first audition was in 408 AH.”