Volume Twenty

1 – al-Wāsiṭī, Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad

The imam, the reliable authority, the hadith scholar: Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī, later al-Baghdādī, known as al-Shurūṭī.

He heard hadith from Ibn al-Muslimah ⦗1⦘, Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn al-Maʾmūn, and others of their rank.

Those who transmitted from him include Ibn ʿAsākir ⦗2⦘, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, and a number of other scholars, the last of whom was ʿUmar ibn Tabarzad.

Al-Samʿānī said: “A trustworthy, upright, and prolific shaykh. He copied manuscripts, secured the primary sources, and a group of people related to us from him. I heard them praise him, describing him as virtuous, learned, and wholly engaged in matters that concerned him.”