the great qadi, Abū Yaʿlā Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Farrāʾ al-Baghdādī, the Hanbalī.

He was born in 457 AH; his father died while he was still being nursed.

He heard ḥadith from Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn, Jābir ibn Yāsīn, and a number of others.

He studied jurisprudence under Qadi Yaʿqūb al-Barzabīnī—one of his father’s students—until he excelled in knowledge. He then authored al-Tabṣira on points of disagreement, the book Ruʾūs al-Masāʾil, and a commentary on the Mukhtaṣar of al-Khiraqī.

Those who narrated from him include his sons—Abū Yaʿlā Muḥammad, Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī, and Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥīm—along with Ibn Nāṣir, Yaḥyā ibn Bawsh, and others.

His brother, the imām Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Yaʿlā, has already been mentioned ⦗1⦘.

Abū Khāzim died in Ṣafar 527 AH, at the age of seventy. He was given the same kunya as his uncle Abū Khāzim Muḥammad, the transmitter from al-Dāraquṭnī.

354 – Abū al-Hasan ibn al-Zāghūnī ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Naṣr *

The imām, the erudite scholar, the shaykh of the Hanbalis, a master of many disciplines: Abū al-Hasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allah