under the judge of Marw and the jurist Naṣr.
He was well-versed in Arabic and served as deputy judge on behalf of Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Balāsāghūnī (1), then on behalf of Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Harawī. When al-Harawī was killed and my grandfather left for the ḥajj, his son—the judge Abū al-Maʿālī (2)—took up the post …
Al-Samʿānī continues: “He was trustworthy, pleasant in conversation, and eloquent. My grandfather narrated to us, saying, ‘ʿAbd al-Razzāq related to us during the recitation of Abū al-Faraj al-Ḥanbalī in the year 455 AH …,’ and he mentioned a hadith.”
I add: Among those who transmitted from him were his youngest son Abū al-Qāsim (3) ibn the ḥadith-master (4) and ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Asad. He was buried beside the Qadam Mosque (5) on the twenty-fifth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 534 AH.
40 – Al-Fuḍaylī, Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-Fuḍayl*
The eminent shaykh and principal musnid of Herat: Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-Fuḍayl ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Fuḍayl al-Anṣārī, known as al-Fuḍaylī, al-Harawī, al-Muzakkī.