al-ʿArabī, Wajīh al-Shaḥḥāmī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAbbāsī, Abū Ṭāhir al-Salafī, and many others.
He was counted among the foremost Shafiʿi scholars and was known as “the Imām of the Two Sanctuaries.” A number of students studied jurisprudence with him in Mecca. ⦗1⦘
He passed away in Mecca in Shaʿbān, 498 AH.
124 – Thābit ibn Bundār ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Bundār al-Dīnawarī *
The shaykh, imām, master Qur’an reciter, expert in tajwīd, hadith scholar, reliable authority, and one of the last of the great teachers: Abū al-Maʿālī al-Dīnawarī—later al-Baghdādī—nicknamed “the Grocer.”
He was born in 416 AH and began seeking knowledge while still young.
He heard hadith from Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥurafī, Abū Bakr al-Barqānī, Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, ʿUthmān ibn Dūst, Abū ʿAlī ibn Dūmā, and many others.
He recited the Qur’an to Ibn al-Ṣaqr the Scribe, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Wāsiṭī, Abū Thaʿlab al-Malḥimī, and others.
Among those who read to him were Abū Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Khayyāṭ, Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Shunayf, and a group of students.