Khamīs al-Ḥawzī said, "Reliable and righteous."⦗1⦘
I add: he died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, in the year 536 AH.⦗2⦘
36 – Ibn al-Badan, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Baghdādī*
A trustworthy shaykh, a Qur’an reciter, and a pious man: Abū al-Maʿālī ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Badan al-Baghdādī, known as al-Ṣaffār (the coppersmith).
He heard hadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī bi-llāh, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima, al-Ṣarīfīnī, and several others.
Narrated from him: Ibn ʿAsākir⦗3⦘, Abū Aḥmad ibn Sukaynah, Abū Shujāʿ ibn al-Maqrūn, Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī, and his brother ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad.
Al-Samʿānī said: “A reliable shaykh, devoted to the Book of Allah, often moved to tears, an attentive listener, constant in the congregational prayer. His own manuscripts have perished, yet many of his auditions survive in people’s collections. I read a great deal to him. He was born in 452 AH.”
Ibn Shāfiʿ reported that he was born in 456 AH and died at the end of Jumādā I in 538 AH.
37 – Ibn Fuṭaymah, al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Khusrūjirdī**
The shaykh, the imam, the jurist, the musnid, the judge: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn