Muḥammad ibn al-Ābanūsī, a Baghdādī, the father of the jurist Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn al-Ābanūsī.

He was born in the year 428 AH.

He studied hadith under Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, Abū Ṭālib al-ʿUshārī, Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī, Abū Bakr ibn Bishrān, and Ibn Makkī the vendor of drinks, and from the latter he heard al-Khaṭīb’s History.

Those who narrated from him include Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sinjī, ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥulwānī, and Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī. He also served as one of the legal agents in the court of al-Dāmghānī.

Abū Bakr al-Samʿānī said: “I heard him relate: ‘For a period I refrained from attending al-Tanūkhī’s sessions because of what I heard regarding his inclination toward iʿtizāl (Muʿtazilite doctrine). Later I did sit with him, and I became dearer to him than anyone else; he used to call me ‘Yahyā ibn Maʿīn.’”

Ibn al-Ābanūsī passed away on the sixteenth of Jumādā al-Ūlā in 505 AH.

Ibn Nāṣir remarked: “Abū Muḥammad was reliable and circumspect, and he possessed knowledge of hadith.”

Al-Silafī said: “He was among those who are truly versed in hadith and in its technical canons—matters understood only by one who has long applied himself to the discipline. He was trustworthy, a Shāfiʿī, and we copied from him through the selection of al-Bardānī.”

His son:

177 — Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ābanūsī Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī *

The imam: Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ābanūsī al-Shāfiʿī, the legal agent.