against him, as Ibn Tūmart had done. (1)
45 – al-Laftuwānī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Shujāʿ ibn Aḥmad
He was the imam and beneficial traditionist, Abū Bakr Muḥammad, son of Abū Naṣr Shujāʿ ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Laftuwānī, originally from Isfahan.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Manda, Sahl ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ghāzī, Sulaymān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Thaqafī, Abū Manṣūr ibn Shukruwayh, Maḥmūd al-Kawsaj, Abū al-Khair ibn Rara, al-Thaqafī, and many others.
In Baghdad he studied with Rizq Allāh al-Tamīmī, Tirād ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī, and Ibn al-Baṭar.
He wrote an indescribable amount and heard a vast body of material.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, Ibn ʿAsākir (2), Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī, his son ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, and others.
He was a righteous shaykh—trustworthy, devout, poor, and content.
He was born in 467 AH.
Abū Mūsā said: “I never saw among my teachers anyone who possessed more books or produced more writings than he. He spent his entire life pursuing ḥadith: collecting it, writing it, authoring works about it, and spreading it.”