The preacher Abū Ḥāmid al-Khayyāṭ said, “If Allah has any saint in Herat, it is this man,” and he pointed to al-Harami.
He died in Herat in Shaʿbān, 491 AH.
Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī informed us:
Abū al-Faḍl al-Hamadhānī narrated to us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Salafī narrated to us; al-Muʾtaman ibn Aḥmad narrated to us, saying, “I heard Abū Saʿd al-Harami, the ḥāfiẓ, say: ‘Nothing can endure vinegar except the worms that live in it; that is, only the people of hadith can endure hadith.’”
123 – al-Ṭabarī, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn
The imam, mufti of Mecca and its hadith scholar: Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṭabarī, the Shafiʿi.
He was born in Āmul in 418 AH.
In 439 AH he heard Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim from Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Fārisī and transmitted it several times. He also studied with Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Masrūr, Abū ʿUthmān al-Ṣābūnī, Nāṣir al-ʿUmari—under whom he pursued jurisprudence—and Karīma al-Marwaziyya. He left descendants in Mecca.
Among those who narrated from him were Ismāʿīl al-Taymī, Razīn al-ʿAbdarī (1), and Qāḍī Abū Bakr ibn—