“Does the shaykh recall it?”

He replied, “His kunya is Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Because the word ʿabd appears both in his personal name and in his kunya, there are two occurrences of it; hence he was called ʿAbdān.”

I asked, “From whom did you hear that?”

He said, “I heard Ibn Ṭāhir say it.”

At that moment I realized that the man was in fact the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Burūjirdī. He narrated to us from Abū Muḥammad al-Dūnī and from a number of others (1).

293 – Ibn al-Laḥḥās, Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad

The trustworthy shaykh and musnid, Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥarīmī, the perfumer, better known as Ibn al-Jabbān (2) al-Laḥḥās.

He heard hadith from his grandfather Muḥammad in the year 478 AH, during the time of Abū Naṣr al-Zaynī. He also heard from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAtāʾ al-Ibrāhīmī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Sarrāj, and Ṭirād ibn Muḥammad al-Naqīb, and he transmitted many reports under the general authorization of Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Busrī.

Among those who narrated from him were al-Samʿānī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Mubārak al-Mustaʿmil, Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Barakāt ibn Ṣaʿnīn, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Bawwāb, Anjab ibn Abī al-Saʿādāt al-Ḥammāmī, Abū al-Munajjā ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Lattī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sabbāk, Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Māristānī, and others.

al-Dhubaythī said: “He is reliable; his audition is sound.”