al-Raqqī (1); Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Masʿūd ibn al-Wazīr al-Dimashqī (2) while in Merv; Abū al-Qāsim al-Khaḍir ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbdān al-Azdī (3); Abū ʿAlī Sahl ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥājī in Isfahan; ʿAbbād ibn Sarḥān al-Shāṭibī at al-ʿUdwa—he met Rizq Allāh there; the Chief Judge, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Nūr al-Hudā Abī Ṭālib al-Zaynabī (4); the judge Abū Bakr ibn al-ʿArabī (5); Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Dāya (6); al-Mubārak ibn Kāmil al-Khaffāf (7); the jurist Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn Dūnās al-Findalāwī (8), a Mālikī; and the spiritual exemplar ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥalḥūlī (9).
116 – Hibat al-Raḥman ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Qushayrī al-Naysābūrī*
son of Shaykh al-Islam Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin; a shaykh, an imam, a scholar, a preacher, the foremost ḥadīth authority of Khurāsān, known as Abū al-Asʿad al-Qushayrī, a native of Naysābūr, the city’s official preacher, and the leading figure of his household in his time.
(1) His biography was given above under no. 112.
(2) His biography was given above under no. 113.
(3) His biography will appear under no. 140.
(4) His biography will appear under no. 131.
(5) His biography will appear under no. 128.
(6) His biography was given above under no. 110.
(7) His biography will appear under no. 203.
(8) His biography will appear under no. 133.
(9) The nisba “al-Halhuli” refers to Halhul, a village situated between Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem) and the tomb of Ibrahim al-Khalil; the village also contains the tomb of Yunus b. Matta. A notice on Abd al-Rahman is found in Yaqut, Muʿjam al-buldan, 2/290; Ibn Nuqta, Tawdhih al-mushtabih, 1/fol. 144a; and in al-Muʿallimi’s annotations on al-Ansab, 4/191.
(*) Additional bibliographic sources: al-Ansab, 10/156; al-Tahbir, 2/368–371; Duwal al-Islam, 2/61; al-ʿIbar, 4/125–126; Tadhkirat al-huffaz, 4/1309; al-Mustafad min Dhayl Tarikh Baghdad, 251–253; Mirat al-jinan, 3/284; Tabaqat al-Subki, 7/329; Lisan al-mizan, 6/187; Shadharat al-dhahab, 4/140–141.