Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Khashshāb (1), who heard directly from al-Qushayrī; Wajīh ibn Ṭāhir al-Shaḥḥāmī (2); and the Qur’an reciter Yaḥyā ibn al-Khalūf al-Gharnāṭī (3).
47 – Ibn al-Ṭarrāḥ, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī
The shaykh, scholar, righteous man, and authoritative transmitter, Abū Muḥammad Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ṭarrāḥ al-Baghdādī, known as “the Director.”
He was born in 456 AH.
He heard from ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī billāh; Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqqūr; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Muhtadī billāh; and many others.
Among those who narrated from him were Ibn ʿAsākir, Ibn al-Samʿānī, Ibn al-Jawzī, Ibn Ṭabrazad, Ibn al-Akhdar, al-Kindī, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Mubārak al-Baladī, Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad al-Mawṣilī, Yaḥyā ibn Yāqūt, his granddaughter Sitt al-Kutab bint ʿAlī, and others.
Al-Samʿānī said, “I wrote down a great deal from him. He was devout, composed, occupied only with what concerned him, keen on doing good, and fond of visiting graves. His father took him to hear hadith and collected booklets for him, and he served as director for the Chief Judge Abū al-Qāsim al-Zaynabī (4).”