al-Karīm ibn Khushaysh al-Baghdādī; Abū al-Fath ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Khirqī; Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Yanal, the Turk; and others.

Al-Silafī read the Sunan of al-Nasāʾī to him in ad-Dūn in the year 500 AH. He told me that, in the matter of Sufism, he had taken his example from his father, his father from his grandfather, the grandfather from Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Dūnī, Ḥusayn from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Dīnawarī—the companion of Mamshādh al-Dīnawarī—and Mamshādh from the shaykh Abū Sinān; it was said that Abū Sinān had, in turn, taken his example from Abū Turāb al-Nakhshabī.

Al-Silafī also said: “His son Abū Saʿd told me, ‘For fifty years my father never broke the daytime fast.’”

Shirawayh remarked: “He was truthful and devoted; I heard from him the Sunan and Riyāḍat al-Mutʿabbidīn.”

Al-Silafī further noted: “He followed the school of Sufyān (1) and was reliable.”

He was born in 427 AH. Another authority states that his audition of the Sunan took place in Shawwāl of 433 AH, and that he died in Rajab of 501 AH.

I add: He travelled to Isfahān and related the book there.

148 – Ibn Khushaysh, Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm*
The righteous, long-lived, truthful shaykh, Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd