The Thirtieth Generation
305 – Ibn al-Fākir, Abū Aḥmad Maʿmar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Qurashī
The shaykh, imam, preacher, scholar, hadith teacher who benefited others, seasoned traveller, and trustworthy narrator: Abū Aḥmad Maʿmar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Rajāʾ (1) ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Fākir ibn Aḥmad al-Qurashī, al-ʿAbshamī, as-Samurī, al-Iṣfahānī—whose reports were judged sound.
Birth: the year 494 AH.
He received hadith from Abū al-Fath Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaddād; Abū al-Maḥāsin al-Rūyānī, the leading Shāfiʿī authority; Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Shahryār; Abū Ṭāhir al-Muḥassad ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn; Ghānim ibn Muḥammad al-Barjī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād; the hadith master Abū Zakariyyā ibn Mandah; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAnbarī; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Dashtaj; Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAdnān; and a number of others in Isfahan, as well as Hibat-Allāh ibn