al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥarrānī al-Baghdādī.

He heard ḥadith from Rizq Allāh al-Tamīmī, Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Anṣārī, Ṭirād al-Zaynabī, and, while in Isfahan, from Abū al-Fatḥ al-Ḥaddād, along with a number of others.

Those who narrated from him include his daughter Khadījah and ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn al-Qubbayṭī; he also granted an authorization to al-Rashīd ibn Maslama.

He composed pleasing verse and authored a book entitled “Meadow of the Literati.”

He was the last survivor among those who had attended the sessions of the judge Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Dāmghānī.

He died on the twelfth of Jumādā al-Ūlā (1) in the year 560 AH.

242 – Ibn al-Farrāʾ, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Yaʿlā al-Baghdādī *
Shaykh of the Ḥanbalīs, jurist-consult, and judge—Abū Yaʿlā the Younger—Muḥammad, son of Abī Khāzim Muḥammad, son of the great judge Abū Yaʿlā ibn al-Farrāʾ al-Baghdādī. He was among the noblest and most perspicacious of jurists.

A great many students completed their training under him.

He received ḥadith from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAllāf, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Tikkī, and a number of others.