much, and under his supervision she acquired a large store of learning, yet he never once so much as looked at her. I asked Shujāʿ, “Was that intentional?” He replied, “At first it happened by coincidence: he would be occupied with teaching until sunset, then enter his house while she was still in her cradle. The situation continued as she grew up, until it became a settled habit. He married her off, she moved into her husband’s home, and the matter remained as it was—he never looked at her at all.”

I said, “There is no merit in such behavior; in fact, the sunnah is to the contrary, for the Master of mankind ﷺ used to carry his granddaughter Ummāmah even while he was praying.” (1)

Ibn al-Ḥuṭayʾah, may Allah have mercy on him, died in Muḥarram of the year 560 AH; his grave in the Qarāfah cemetery is plainly visible and is visited.

235 – al-Dārānī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kinānī, al-Dārānī, the Damascene.

His maternal uncle Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nasāʾī arranged for him to hear hadith from Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isfarāʾīnī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq, and Abū al-Faḍl ibn al-Furāt.

Among those who transmitted from him are Ibn ʿAsākir, his son, al-Musallam al-Māzinī, Mukram, Karīmah, and others. Ibn ʿAsākir said, “Hadith was not his craft.”

He died in the month of Jumada—