Twenty-Seventh Generation

202 – al-Rawwāsī, Abū al-Fityān ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Saʿduwayh*

The shaykh, imam, ḥadīth master, prolific narrator, and itinerant scholar: Abū al-Fityān ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Saʿduwayh ibn Mahmat ad-Dihistānī (1), known as al-Rawwāsī.

He travelled far and wide in the service of this discipline, passing through Khurasan, the Two Holy Sanctuaries, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, and the coastal regions. He was sharp-sighted and exacting in the science.

In his own land he heard ḥadīth from the scholar Abū Masʿūd al-Bajalī al-Rāzī and kept his company.

In Nishapur he studied with Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Masrūr, ʿAbd al-Ghafir al-Fārisī, and Abū ʿUthmān aṣ-Ṣābūnī.

In Harran he learned from Mubādir ibn ʿAlī.

And in Baghdad he sat with the judge Abū Yaʿlā ibn al-Farrāʾ, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima, and others of similar rank.