—unless he were given five mann (1) of ʿūd (aloeswood). Saʿd kept urging the judge to make expiation for his oath, but the judge would not, and Saʿd himself never brought him anything.
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Ibn al-Ikhwah, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm
The venerable shaykh, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ikhwah al-Baghdādī, the perfume-seller, the legal agent, and the grandfather of al-Muʾayyad ibn al-Ikhwah.
He heard hadith from Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Busrī and others, and he alone transmitted al-Mujtanā by Ibn Durayd from Abū Manṣūr al-ʿUkbarī.
Those who related hadith from him include al-Samʿānī and a number of others, the last of them being al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Salām.
He lived eighty-six years.
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “A dignified shaykh, handsome in appearance, virtuous, and eager to associate with people of goodness; he is the father of our two teachers, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.”
He died on the fifth of Ramaḍān, 541 AH. -
The Shaykh of the Shuyūkh, Ismāʿīl ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Dūst
The righteous shaykh, Abū al-Barakāt Ismāʿīl, son of Abū Saʿd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (2) ibn Dūst al-Naysābūrī.