and from Ibn Lāl (1); he also heard from Bakr ibn Ḥayd, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī, and Shaykh Abū Isḥāq when he passed by them. In Isfahān he received traditions from Sulaymān al-Ḥāfiẓ and al-Raʾīs al-Thaqafī, and in Baghdad from Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn Abī ʿUthmān (2).

Those who transmitted on his authority include Ibn ʿAsākir (3), Ibn al-Samʿānī, and Ibn al-Jawzī.

Abū Saʿd said: “A trustworthy imam, of great stature and extensive transmission; he also composed poetry.”

Shīrawayh said: “An excellent scholar, well-grounded in the sciences of jurisprudence and literature; he narrated ḥadith and delivered exhortations.”

He passed away in Rajab, 535 AH, and his grave is still visited.

86 – al-Zaydī, Abū al-Barakāt ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad*

The shaykh, the erudite scholar, Qur’an reciter, grammarian, leading authority of Kufa and head of the Zaydis: Abū al-Barakāt ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥamza ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn, descendant of the martyr Zayd ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAlawī, the Zaydī, the Kufan, the Ḥanafī, and imam of the Mosque of Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī.