171 – ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al-Shahhāmī
The shaykh, scholar, reliable authority and ḥadith master, Abū Manṣūr al-Naysābūrī al-Shahhāmī.

He was born in 475 AH.

He heard ḥadiths from his grandfather; ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Maḥmī; Abū Bakr ibn Khalaf; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Wāḥidī; al-Faḍl ibn Abī Ḥarb; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tiflīsī; Muḥammad ibn Sahl al-Sarrāj; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dashtī; Abū al-Muẓaffar Mūsā ibn ʿImrān; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ṣarrām; Hibat Allāh ibn Abī al-Ṣahbāʾ; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥassān al-Bustī; and many others.

Among those who narrated from him were Ibn ʿAsākir (1), al-Samʿānī, his son ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Saʿd, al-Muʾayyad al-Ṭūsī, al-Ṣaffār Qāsim ibn ʿAbd Allāh, and several others.

Al-Samʿānī said: “He was trustworthy, truthful, of commendable conduct and pleasant company, gentle-natured, and copious in his transmission. When he grew older he served as mustamli for the shaykhs and leading scholars, as his father and grandfather had done. In his advanced years he held dictation sessions in the very place of his father and grandfather, in the Manīʿī Mosque (2). During the Ghuzz upheaval he disappeared; no one knew whether he had been killed or died from the cold. Later I heard that he was burned to death.”

Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Faraḍī wrote to us that ʿAbd al-Khāliq died while under detention and interrogation.