Ḥamduwayh al-Ḥulwānī, al-Marwazī, the cloth merchant.
A jurist, scholar, and man of practice; generous, highly esteemed, and of considerable wealth.
He was born in 461 AH.
He travelled in quest of knowledge and heard ḥadith from Abū Bakr ibn Khalaf al-Shīrāzī and his peers in Nīshāpūr; from Thābit ibn Bundār and his cohort in Baghdad; and from the companions of Abū Nuʿaym in Iṣfahān.
He lived in Ghazna for a time, purchased many books and endowed them, and established a hostel for ḥadith scholars in Marw.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Samʿānī, Ibn ʿAsākir, and a group of others.
He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 539 AH.
70 – Ibn al-Muhtadī bi-Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad *
The preacher and leading Qur’an reciter, Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, descendant of the caliph al-Muhtadī bi-Allāh (1) Muḥammad son of al-Wāthiq Hārūn, a Hāshimite, ʿAbbāsid, Rāshidite, from Baghdad.
He was born in 449 AH.
He received audition from ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn and from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī bi-Allāh, but his certificates of audition from both were lost in a fire. He and Abū al-Ḥusayn (2) converge in their lineage at their ancestor ʿAbd al-Ṣamad.