in Baghdad, his students would have remained until after 640 AH. He lived for more than ninety years.

270 – Abū Ḥakīm Ibrāhīm ibn Dīnār al-Nuhrūwānī

The erudite scholar and exemplar, Abū Ḥakīm Ibrāhīm ibn Dīnār al-Nuhrūwānī, a Hanbali and one of the leading imams of Baghdad. He was an ascetic, God-fearing, virtuous, and forbearing man, unrivalled in the science of inheritance law.

He founded a madrasa at Bāb al-Azj and withdrew there in devotion (1). He preferred obscurity and contentment, earning his livelihood as a tailor: for a single shirt he would take no more than two small coins (2). Several people tried hard to provoke his anger but failed. He served the chronically ill and elderly with a cheerful face, and the ḥadiths he transmitted were sound.

He studied under Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAllāf and Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bayān. Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Jawzī, Ibn al-Akhdar, and Abū Naṣr ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad.

He lived seventy-five years and died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 556 AH (3).