344 – Shuhda, daughter of the ḥadith scholar Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn al-Faraj al-Dināwarī, later of Baghdad, from the Ibri quarter (1). A long-lived authority, an accomplished scribe, the Musnida of Iraq, and the pride of women.
She was born sometime after 480 AH.
Her teachers included Abū ’l-Fawāris Ṭirād al-Zaynabī, Ibn Ṭalḥah al-Niʿālī, Abū ’l-Ḥasan ibn Ayyūb, Abū ’l-Khaṭṭāb ibn al-Baṭar, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿUlwān, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Yūsufī, Thābit ibn Bundār, Manṣūr ibn Ḥīd, Jaʿfar al-Sarrāj, and a number of others.
She possessed a mashyakha (personal register of her shaykhs) from which we have heard.
Those who transmitted from her include Ibn ʿAsākir, al-Samʿānī, Ibn al-Jawzī, ʿAbd al-Ghanī, ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī, Ibn al-Akhdar, Shaykh al-Muwaffaq, Shaykh al-ʿImād, al-Shihāb ibn Rājiḥ, al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Nāṣiḥ, al-Fakhr al-Irbilī, Tāj al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥammūyah, Aʿazz ibn al-ʿUllayq (2), Ibrāhīm ibn al-Khayr, Bahāʾ al-Dīn ibn al-Jummazī, Muḥammad ibn al-Munni, Abū ’l-Qāsim ibn Qumayrah, and many others.