23 – Badr, Abū al-Najm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Armanī al-Shīḥī*
The shaykh Abū al-Najm Badr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Armanī, al-Shīḥī (1).
His patron, the hadith scholar ʿAbd al-Muḥsin (2), arranged for him to hear a large body of narration from Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima, Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn al-Maʾmūn, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Samʿānī, Ibn ʿAsākir, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, Ibn al-Jawzī, and Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh al-Wakīl.
He was devoid of scholarly merit; it is reported that when he was asked to grant an authorization he replied, “How many of these (3) do you want? I have no ijāza left.”
He died in Ramaḍān of 532 AH, at the age of eighty.
His son Muḥammad ibn Badr lived on until roughly the 570s; he narrated from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAllāf, and al-Muwaffaq ʿAbd al-Laṭīf heard from him in Aleppo.
24 – Ibn Mawhab, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad**
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Mawhab al-Judhāmī, the Andalusian from Almería, a hadith scholar.