among the leading figures of the city, endowed with much prayer, fasting, and gravitas. His freedman Nushtekin told me that he heard him during his final illness say, “I have completed four thousand full recitations.” He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 537 AH.
67 – Wajīh ibn Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shahhāmī*
The shaykh, scholar, upright authority, and foremost musnid of Khurasan; Abū Bakr, the brother of Zāhir (1); al-Shahhāmī, al-Naysābūrī—descended from a household known for integrity and transmission.
He was born in 455 AH and travelled far in pursuit of hadith.
He heard hadith from Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī; Abū Ḥāmid al-Azhari; Abū al-Muẓaffar Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Shujāʿī; Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Tājir; Yaʿqūb ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣayrafī; Abū Ṣāliḥ the muezzin; ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf al-Juwaynī; Shabīb ibn Aḥmad al-Bastīghī; Abū Sahl al-Ḥafṣī; ʿUmar and ʿĀʾishah, the two children of Abū ʿUmar al-Bisṭāmī; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Muzakkī; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Wāḥidī; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ṣarrām; and a number of others in Nīshāpūr. He also studied with Bibā al-Harthamiyyah; Abū ʿAṭāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Jawharī; Najīb ibn Maymūn; Abū Ismāʿīl al-Anṣārī; a group of scholars in Herat; Ismāʿīl ibn Masʿadah al-Ismāʿīlī in Jurjān; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī; ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan in Baghdad; and Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Wudʿān in Medina.