under Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, and in Marw al-Rūdh with the “Reviver of the Sunnah,” Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʿūd al-Baghawī, from whom he read the two works Maʿālim al-Tanzīl and Sharḥ al-Sunnah and copied them both. In Bukhārā he studied with the eminent scholar Burhān al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Māzah al-Ḥanafī.

He later travelled to Azerbaijan and al-Jazīrah, preaching wherever he went. His reputation soared, his gatherings were crowded, and people flocked to him because of the excellence of his admonitions. I do not know why he was given the sobriquet “Ḥafadah.” (1)

Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī (2) said: “I wrote ḥadīth from him in Marw and Nīsābūr. He was a jurist, an exhorter, quick-witted, resolute, and eloquent. He had heard ḥadīth from ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Shīrawī, the ḥāfiẓ Abū ’l-Fityān al-Rawwāsī, and Nāṣir ibn Aḥmad al-ʿIyāḍī.”

I add: Those who narrated from him include Abū Aḥmad ibn Sukaynah, Ibn al-Akhdar, Shams al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ghafūr ibn Badal al-Tabrīzī al-Buzūrī, Abū ’l-Mawāhib ibn Ṣaṣrā, the judge Bahāʾ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Shaddād, and Abū ’l-Majd Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qazwīnī.

He was born in the year 486 AH, and he died in Tabrīz, in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 571 (3) AH.

342 – Ibn al-Rikhla, Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Mubārak ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī
The shaykh, scholar, Qurʾān-reciter, and long-lived authority, Abū Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Mubārak ibn