83 – Ibn al-Shahrazūrī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Muẓaffar*
The eminent chief judge, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Muẓaffar, known as Ibn al-Shahrazūrī al-Mawṣilī, a Shāfiʿī jurist, was a dignified scholar of great stature. He held judicial posts in several regions and was nicknamed “the Judge of the Two Horizons.”
He studied jurisprudence under Shaykh Abū Isḥāq, from whom he also learned hadith, and he received narrations from Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Anmāṭī and Abū Naṣr al-Zaynabī. In Nishapur he heard hadith from Abū Bakr ibn Khalaf and ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Maḥmī.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Samʿānī, Ibn ʿAsākir⦗1⦘, Ibn Ṭabarzad, and a number of others. He traveled to Damascus more than once as an envoy.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 538 AH at the age of eighty-five.
84 – Ibn al-Muʿtamid, Abū al-Futūḥ Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Isfarāyinī**
The distinguished preacher and theologian, Abū al-Futūḥ Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Isfarāyinī.
(*) Al-Samʿani, al-Ansab, vol. 7, pp. 418–419; al-Khurida (Syrian section), vol. 2, p. 322; Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Muntazam, vol. 10, p. 112; Ibn Hajar, al-Lubab, vol. 2, pp. 216–217; Ibn al-Mustawfi, Tarikh Irbil, vol. 1, pp. 203–206; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Aʿyan, vol. 4, pp. 69–70; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, vol. 4, p. 1283; al-Safadi, al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, vol. 4, p. 339; al-Subki, Tabaqat al-Subki, vol. 6, pp. 174–175; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 4, p. 123 (obits for 539 AH).
(1) Cf. Ibn ʿAsakir, Mashyakha, vol. 2, p. 206.
(* *) Ibn ʿAsakir, Tabyin Kadhib al-Muftari, pp. 328–329; Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Muntazam, vol. 10, pp. 110–112; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil fi l-Tarikh, vol. 11, pp. 96–97; Sibti Ibn al-Jawzi, Mirʾat al-Zaman, vol. 8, p. 111; al-Dhahabi, al-Ibar, vol. 4, p. 105; al-Safadi, al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, vol. 4, pp. 323–324; al-Yafiʿi, Mirʾat al-Jinan, vol. 3, p. 269; al-Subki, Tabaqat al-Subki, vol. 6, pp. 170–173; al-Isnawi, Tabaqat al-Isnawi, vol. 1, pp. 107–108; Hajji Khalifa, Kashf al-Zunun, cols. 220, 1926; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 4, p. 118; Ismaʿil Pasha, Hadiyyat al-ʿArifin, vol. 2, p. 88.