except for a few fascicles transmitted by Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, together with several sessions that Abū al-Qāsim had dictated, and the book ʿUyūn al-Ajwiba fī Funūn al-Asʾila (1).

He also obtained a general authorization (ijāzah) from Abū Naṣr al-Zaynabī and others.

He died on the thirteenth of Shawwāl, 546 AH.

117 – al-Bayḍāwī, Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad

The Imām and judge, Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Bayḍāwī, originally from Fars, later residing in Baghdad, a Ḥanafī. He was the maternal brother of the Chief Judge Abū al-Qāsim (2) al-Zaynabī.

He heard hadith from Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima, Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn al-Maʾmūn, Abū Muḥammad al-Ṣarīfīnī, and a number of others.

Those who narrated from him include al-Samʿānī, Ibn ʿAsākir (3), Ibn al-Jawzī, al-Kindī, and many others.

Al-Samʿānī said: “A righteous, humble shaykh, careful to seek what is right in his judgments and deliberate.” (4)

He passed away in mid-Jumādā I, 537 AH.