and people would single him out to conduct the Aʿaziyya observance, and his son Abū Muḥammad was reared upon the same path.
Abū al-Qāsim died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 552 AH.
201 – al-Shilbī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh *
A prodigious, multi-disciplinary scholar, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Andalusī, from a household renowned for learning, ministerial service, and the judiciary.
He performed the pilgrimage, resided for a time near the Sacred Precincts, then travelled on to Baghdad and Khurasan.
Al-Samʿānī said: “I met him in Herat and found him an unfathomable ocean of ḥadith, jurisprudence, grammar, and other sciences.”
He received ḥadith from Abū Baḥr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar al-Hawzanī, Abū Ghālib ibn al-Bannāʾ, Zāhir al-Shaḥḥāmī, and their contemporaries. He was characterised by asceticism, devotion, and dignity. He passed away in Herat in 548 AH (1) at the age of sixty-four.
I say: Abū al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Samʿānī transmitted from him.
202 – al-Fāmī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʿUthmān **
The shaykh, imām, ḥadith scholar, and ḥāfiẓ, Abū al-Naḍr (2) ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd