115 – Abū al-Durr Yāqūt al-Rūmī, a travelling merchant*, the client (mawlā) of ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Bukhārī.
His patron arranged for him to hear from Abū Muḥammad al-Ṣarīfīnī: seven sessions of al-Mukhalliṣ and the book “Jesting” (al-Mizāḥ) by al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār.
Al-Samʿānī said: “He was an elder whose outward conduct bespoke piety and rectitude; there was nothing objectionable about him. He narrated in Egypt, Damascus, and Baghdad (1).”
Ibn ʿAsākir commented: “He came to Egypt and Damascus repeatedly for trade, yet he understood nothing, and he died in Damascus in Shaʿbān, 543 AH.”
I say: Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn ʿAsākir (2), his son Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Qāsim, Abū al-Mawāhib ibn Ṣaṣrā, Muḥammad ibn al-Zanf (3), al-Khaḍir ibn Kāmil al-ʿĀbir, ʿAqīl ibn Abī al-Jinn, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sulṭān al-Qurashī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ismāʿīl al-Janzawī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Hilāl, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Jawshan al-Tanūkhī, and others.
In that same year there also died Abū Tammām Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mukhtār ibn al-Muʾayyad billāh, a merchant (4), in Nishapur, and the jurist Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Nabhan.