135 – Al-Ziyādī, Abū al-Maḥāsin Asʿad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Muwaffaq*
The leader and hadith transmitter Abū al-Maḥāsin Asʿad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Muwaffaq al-Ziyādī, originally from Herat (al-Harawī), a Ḥanafī, a devoted worshipper, and resident of the village of Mālīn (1).
He received from al-Dāwūdī (2) the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī, and also heard the collections of al-Dārimī and ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Samʿānī, Ibn ʿAsākir (3), Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fāmī, ʿAbd al-Jāmiʿ ibn ʿAlī Khakhkha, Abū Rūḥ, and others.
Al-Samʿānī stated that he was trustworthy, upright, devout, constant in his litanies, fully occupied with worship, and given to uninterrupted fasting.
He passed away in 544 AH, at the age of eighty-five.
136 – The Judge ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣabī**
The imam, the erudite scholar, the unrivaled ḥadith master, Shaykh al-Islām, the judge, Abū al-Faḍl,
(*) Al-Ibar, vol. 4, p. 121; Mirat al-Jinan, vol. 3, p. 282; Al-Jawahir al-Mudiyyah, vol. 1, p. 385; Al-Tabaqat al-Saniyyah, no. 471; Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 4, p. 138.
(1) Located two parasangs from Herat; see Muʿjam al-Buldan, vol. 5, p. 44.
(2) He died in 467 AH; his biography appeared in volume 18, no. 108, above.
(3) See Ibn ʿAsakir’s Mashyakha, fol. 26/1.
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