- Abū Ghālib al-Māwardī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī
The shaykh, imām, ḥadith scholar, and trustworthy narrator (ṣadūq): Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Tamīmī, from Basra, known as al-Māwardī.
Born in 450 AH.
He studied ḥadith with Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqqūr, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Anmāṭī, ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Khallāl, and several others in Baghdad; with Abū ʿAmr ibn Mandah, Maḥmūd ibn Jaʿfar, and a number of scholars in Isfahan; with Muḥammad ibn al-Manthūr (1) al-Juhanī; with Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAllān in Kufa; with Abū ʿAlī al-Tustarī; and with ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Shaghaba in Basra.
He was a righteous and learned shaykh who earned his living by copying books for people.
Among those who transmitted hadith from him were Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir (2), Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī, Yaḥyā ibn Bawsh, and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Sukayna.
Ibn al-Jawzī said: “He copied a great many texts in his own hand and was a pious man. He died in Ramadan of the year 525 AH.”
He also related that someone saw Abū Ghālib in a dream, and he said, “Allah forgave me through the blessings of ḥadith and granted me everything I had hoped for.”
Ibn al-Najjār remarked: “He was reliable, devout, and chaste, and he transmitted a large body of material.”