146 – Ibn al-Furāwī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl

The shaykh, jurist, scholar, and reliable hadith transmitter: Abū al-Barakāt ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Furāwī al-Ṣāʿidī al-Naysābūrī, surnamed Ṣafiyy al-Dīn, whose trustworthiness was formally recognized.

He heard hadith from his maternal grandfather Ṭāhir al-Shahhāmī; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ṣarrām; ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Maḥmī; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Sahl al-Sarrāj; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tiflīsī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Wāḥidī; Abū Bakr ibn Khalaf al-Shīrāzī; Fāṭima bint al-Daqqāq; and several others.

Those who narrated from him include Ibn ʿAsākir (1), al-Samʿānī, his son ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, al-Muʾayyad al-Ṭūsī, his grandson Manṣūr ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn al-Furāwī, the copper-seller Qāsim ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣaffār, Zaynab bint ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shaʿriyya, and others.

Al-Samʿānī said: “He is an imam, virtuous, reliable, truthful, devout, and of excellent character. He has extensive expertise in endowment documents and the drafting of legal deeds; in this discipline no one equals him. He served as the imam of the Muṭarraz Mosque.”

Abū al-Muẓaffar ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Samʿānī heard directly from him al-Ḥākim’s Maʿrifat ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth, which he had received from Abū Bakr ibn Khalaf. Abū al-Muẓaffar also took down from him the entire Musnad of Abū ʿAwāna al-Isfarāyīnī, receiving it as follows: from the beginning up to Faḍāʾil al-Madīna through ʿUthmān al-Maḥmī, then up to the section entitled Kitāb Faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān through al-Ṣarrām, and from there to—