and Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Mandāʾī (1).

Abū al-Fatḥ used to err and pronounce the name al-Jallābī with a fatḥa, whereas I have seen it written with a ḍamma in his father’s own hand in Tārīkh Wāsiṭ (The History of Wāsiṭ); the same reading was recorded by Ibn Nuqṭah (2) and others.

He died in Ramaḍān, in the year 542 AH.

Ibn al-Mukhtār, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mukhtār al-ʿAbbāsī
The venerable shaykh, the foremost ḥadith transmitter of his age, Abū Tammām Aḥmad, son of Shaykh Abū al-ʿIzz Muḥammad ibn al-Mukhtār ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn al-Muʾayyad bi-Allāh al-ʿAbbāsī, a Baghdadi merchant and itinerant, was known as Ibn al-Khuṣṣ (3).

He was born around the year 450 AH.

He heard ḥadith from Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima and was the last person in Khurasan to transmit Ṣifat al-Munāfiq (The Characteristics of the Hypocrite) by al-Firyābī on his authority. He also studied under Abū Naṣr al-Zaynabī.

Those who narrated from him include al-Samʿānī, his son ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣaffār, Ismāʿīl al-Qārī, and others.

He passed away in Nīshāpūr, after extensive trading voyages by sea to India and the Turkish lands, on the fifth of Dhū al-Qaʿda, in the year 543 AH.