Al-Samʿānī said, “Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān was a preacher, scrupulous and devout. I recorded hadith from him, and he told me that he had been born in 493 AH.”
I add: He passed away in Muḥarram, 578 AH.
30 – Ibn Mawāhib, Abū al-ʿIzz Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī *
The erudite man of letters, Abū al-ʿIzz Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mawāhib ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, known as Ibn al-Khurāsānī, the grammarian and poet.
Born: 494 AH.
He received transmission from al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Busrī, Abū Saʿd ibn Khushaysh, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ṭayyūrī, and Ibn Sawsan al-Tammār.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Akhdar, Abū al-Futūḥ ibn al-Ḥuṣrī, Muḥammad ibn Rajab al-Khāzin, al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Dubaythī, and others.
Al-ʿImād al-Kātib (1) said: “He was the prodigy of the age in literature and grammar, deeply versed in the science of poetry and fully capable of composition; his mind flowed like running water, and his collected poems (Dīwān) …”