• the Qur’an reciter and poet (1);
• the ḥadith transmitter Ibn Rifāʿa (2);
• the jurist and Qur’an reciter ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Tamīm al-Tamīmī of Damascus;
• the shaykh of the Qur’an reciters, Abū Ḥumayd ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī al-Samānī al-Ishbīlī (3); and
• Shaykh ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Harastānī, transmitter of the Juzʾ al-Rāfaqī.

Taken as a whole, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir enjoys a lofty stature, yet certain of his statements and claims have been faulted—Allah is the final arbiter—and some of what is circulated about him is sheer invention.

287 – ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Abī Saʿd Manṣūr ibn Ismāʿīl al-Harawī, son of Abū Saʿd ibn Abī Bishr—the upright, eminent, righteous, long-lived scholar; the musnid of Herat; Abū Muḥammad al-Harawī, known as al-Fāmī.

He was the last person alive to have heard from Bībā bint ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Harthamiyya and from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad Kulār al-Būshanjī. He also received ḥadith from Shaykh al-Islām ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī.

Those who narrated from him include al-Samʿānī and his son Abū al-Muẓaffar, ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ al-Azdī, and the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī; he was the most senior shaykh that the last of these met during his wide-ranging travels.

Al-Samʿānī said, “He was a shaykh of goodness and sincerity.” He was born in Shaʿbān of 470 AH.

I (the author) say: He passed away in 562 AH, and he was the last person to transmit the hadiths of Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī with an elevated chain.