and Kirmān, but we never managed to reach Iraq. He went on to say: “As for those from whom I wrote traditions in Isfahan, they are more than one thousand shaykhs, and during my journeys I wrote from another thousand. Indeed, in Herat and Nishapur alone I heard from six hundred.”

I say: al-Daqqāq was a remarkably prolific transmitter of ḥadith—an Atharī who adhered to the Sunnah—poor yet self-restrained, and devout (1).

Those who narrated from him include al-Silafī, Abū Saʿd al-Ṣāʾigh, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, Khalīl ibn Badr al-Rārānī, and several others.

He died in Shawwal, on the sixth day of the month, in 516 AH.

278 – Abū Ṣādiq al-Madīnī, Murshid ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Qāsim *

The ḥadith scholar, reliable authority, and learned man Abū Ṣādiq Murshid ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Qāsim, originally from Medina and later from Egypt.

He heard traditions from Abū al-Hasan ʿAlī ibn Ḥimmaṣa, ʿAlī ibn Rabīʿa, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṭaffāl, Dājin al-Sadūsī, al-Ḥakīmī, and a number of others.