315 – ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Asad ibn Thābit, Abū Muḥammad al-Dimashqī

A jurist, leading scholar, hadith authority, and mufti—Abū Muḥammad al-Dimashqī, Hanafī by affiliation, originally from Tripoli. He first followed the Shāfiʿī school, then adopted the Hanafī school and studied jurisprudence under al-Balkhī. He travelled in pursuit of hadith, authored works, compiled narrations, taught at the Muʿīniyyah and the Ṣādiriyyah (1) madrasahs, preached to the people, and was known by the honorific Tāj al-Dīn.

He heard hadith from Jamāl al-Islām ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥamzah, Ṭāhir ibn Sahl al-Isfarāʾīnī, ʿAlī ibn Qubays al-Mālikī, Yaḥyā ibn Biṭrīq, and Naṣr Allāh al-Maṣṣīṣī.

In Baghdad he received narrations from the judge of the Maristan, Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Samarkandī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Zawzanī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī and their contemporaries.

In Kūfah he studied under Abū al-Barakāt ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʿAlawī; in Hamadhān under Hibat Allāh, the nephew of al-Ṭawīl; in Isfahan under Fāṭimah bint al-Baghdādī; and from ʿAtīq ibn Aḥmad al-Ruwaydashtī.

He compiled a Muʿjam—an index—of his teachers.

Those who narrated from him include his son Ghālib, Sayf al-Dawlah Muḥammad ibn Ghassān, Ismāʿīl ibn Yadāsh al-Sallār, and others.

(1) The Ṣādiriyyah madrasah.