350 – Abū al-Ḥusayn Ibn al-Farrāʾ, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn
The Imām, eminent scholar, jurist, and judge: Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad, son of the great chief judge Abū Yaʿlā Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalaf ibn al-Farrāʾ, a Hanbalī from Baghdad.
He was born in 451 AH.
He received ḥadith from his father, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima, Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn, Abū al-Muẓaffar Hannād al-Nasafī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī bi-Allāh, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqqūr, and several others.
Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī granted him an authorization.
After his father’s death he pursued jurisprudence in earnest, excelled, debated, taught, and authored works. He was exceptionally devoted to the Sunnah, constantly speaking about the Divine Attributes, and he compiled a biographical register of Hanbalī jurists.
Among those who narrated from him are al-Salafī, Ibn ʿAsākir (1), Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, Tammām ibn al-Shannā, Dhākir Allāh al-Harbī, Muẓaffar ibn al-Barrī, ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Wāʿiẓ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUlyān, Muḥammad ibn Ghunaymah ibn al-Qāq, and others.