288 – ʿAbd al-Hādī ibn Abī Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar ibn Maʾmūn al-Sijistānī — the imām, exemplar, ascetic, and devoted worshipper; Abū ʿArūbah al-Sijistānī, to whom the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī travelled and whom he venerated greatly. He said:
“He received ḥadith from his grandfather in 485 AH, and when I performed the pilgrimage Ibn Nāṣir read to him Ibn Ḥibbān’s Musalsalāt.”
He also said, “He lived for eighty-nine years, and I never detected a single lapse on his part. His name was widespread; he maintained a ribāṭ (spiritual lodge) where he preached and where disciples gathered.”
He died in 562 AH.
289 – al-Basṭāmī, Abū Shujāʿ ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah —
The shaykh, imām, eminent scholar, and ḥadith specialist: Abū Shujāʿ ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Naṣr — with a fatḥa on the nūn — al-Basṭāmī, later al-Balkhī, the imām of the Rāghūmā Mosque (1).
He said, “I was born in 475 AH.”
He heard ḥadith from his father, from Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khalīlī, from Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Aṣbahānī, and from Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Siminjānī (2), and he studied jurisprudence under the last of these.