and Abū al-Khayr Hibat Allah ibn al-Ḥasan al-Abarqūhī, as well as the musnid of Hamadhān, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Tuwabbī (1).
213 – Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Maqdisī
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, indefatigable traveller and wayfarer, prolific author; Abū al-Faḍl ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Qaysarānī al-Maqdisī, the Atharī, the Ẓāhirī, the Ṣūfī.
He was born in Jerusalem, in Shawwāl of the year 408 AH.
He studied and auditioned hadith in Jerusalem and Egypt, the Two Sanctuaries, Syria, the Jazīra, Iraq, Isfahān, the Jibāl, Fārs, and Khurāsān. With his rapid, strong, elegant hand he copied a quantity beyond description. He authored, compiled, and excelled in this field, devoting to it the utmost care, though others proved more precise and exacting than he.
He heard from Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shāfiʿī and his circle in Mecca, from Saʿd al-Zanjānī, and from Hayyāj ibn ʿUbayd.
In Medina he heard from al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī
(1) Al-Samani (al-Ansab, 2/110) vocalises the nisba with a ḍamma on the initial ta, a fatḥa on the waw, and a doubled ya; it refers to the village of Tuwi in the Hamadhan district.
(*) Further notices appear in: Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Muntazam, 9/177-179; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Ayan, 4/287-288; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 4/182/1-184/2; Ibn Taghribirdi, Duwal al-Islam, 2/36; al-Dhahabi, al-Ibar, 4/14; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-Iʿtidal, 3/587; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 4/1242, 1245; Ibn al-Najjar, al-Mustafad min Dhayl Tarikh Baghdad, 31-33; al-Safadi, al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, 3/166-168; Ibn al-Jawzi, Mirʾat al-Zaman, 8/30; al-Yafiʿi, Mirʾat al-Jinan, 3/195-196; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya, 12/176-177; Abu Nuʿaym, Tabaqat al-Awliya, 316-318; Ibn Hajar, Lisan al-Mizan, 5/207-210; al-Sakhawi, al-Uns al-Jalil, 265-266; Haji Khalifa, Kashf al-Zunun, 88, 116, 180; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 4/18; Ismaʿil Pasha al-Baghdadi, Hadiyat al-ʿArifin, 2/82-83.