22 – Ibn Saʿdawayh, Abū Sahl Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿdawayh al-Iṣbahānī

A reliable scholar, known as al-Amīn (the trustworthy). Upright, devout, truthful, and prolific.

He received hadith from Ibrāhīm, the grandson of Baḥruwayh (1); from Abū al-Faḍl ibn Bundār (2); and from the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Ḥalāwī.

Those who narrated extensively from him include Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, Muḥammad ibn Maʿmar, and others.

He granted authorization to Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Samʿānī, who said (3): “Among what he had personally heard were the Musnad of al-Ruwayānī (4) and his Ghurar wa al-Durar; he heard them both from Ibn Bundār, who had taken them from Ibn Fanākī (5) from al-Ruwayānī. He likewise possessed the Book of Knowledge by Ibn Mardawayh (6), which he had heard from al-Ḥalāwī, from Ibn Mardawayh.”

He was born in 446 AH and, according to the same report, died in Dhū al-Qaʿda of 530 AH.