103 – Ibn al-Razzaz, Abū Manṣūr Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar
The leading Shāfiʿī authority, Abū Manṣūr Saʿīd (1) ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Razzāz al-Shāfiʿī, a Baghdadi and instructor at the Niẓāmiyyah College.
He studied jurisprudence under al-Ghazālī, Abū Saʿd al-Mutawallī, al-Ilkiyā al-Harrāsī, Abū Bakr al-Shāshī, and Asʿad al-Mīhanī.
He also heard ḥadīth from Rizq Allāh al-Tamīmī and many others.
He then took the teaching chair, benefiting students. Dignified in bearing and highly respected, he held the Niẓāmiyyah post for a time before being removed, yet many scholars completed their training under him.
Those who narrated from him include al-Samʿānī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Asad, and a number of others.
He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of 539 AH; his son Abū Saʿd led the funeral prayer. He lived seventy-seven years.
104 – al-Dahhān, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Faḍl
The upright ḥadīth scholar, Abū Naṣr ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī ʿĀṣim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Faḍl al-Harawī, the Sufi, nicknamed al-Dahhān, a close companion of Shaykh al-Islām (2).