, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Madani; Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Qaṭīʿī; Abū al-Munajjā ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Lattī; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd ibn Bahrūz; and Abū Saʿd Thābit ibn Aḥmad al-Khujandī, who had settled in Shiraz and was the last of those who heard from him to die—he lived on until the year 637 AH, and his audition was in the fifth [century].
Among those who transmitted from him by ijāza were: Abū al-Karam Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Mutawakkilī, and Karīmah daughter of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Qurashiyya.
Al-Samʿānī said: “He was a righteous shaykh, dignified in bearing and character, cordial, humble, and free of reproach. He gained felicity by keeping company with Imām ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī and served him for some time. He travelled to Iraq, Khūzistān, and Basra, and—as he told me—he lodged in Baghdad at the Bistāmī Ribāṭ. I heard from him in Herat and Mālīn. He was remarkably patient in reading and loved transmission. He recited the Sahīh, the Musnad of ʿAbd, and al-Dārimī’s Sunan on several occasions. I heard that his father had named him Muḥammad, but ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī renamed him ʿAbd al-Awwal and gave him the kunya Abū al-Waqt, adding, ‘The Ṣūfī is the child of his moment.’”
Al-Samʿānī also said in al-Taḥbīr (1): “The father of Abū al-Waqt granted him ijāza. His birthplace (2) was Sijistān in the year 410 AH. He heard from ʿAlī ibn Bushrā al-Laythī the book ‘The Merits of al-Shāfiʿī’ by al-Ābirī, though with some omissions. He then settled in Herat. He was a righteous, long-lived shaykh, eager to hear ḥadith. He carried his son, Abū al-Waqt, on his shoulders to Būshanj. ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī used to honor and look after him. He died in Mālīn, in Shawwāl of the year 512 AH, having lived one hundred and three years.”