44 – Al-Rāfiʿī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Faḍl al-Qazwīnī *
A leading imam, erudite scholar, and Mufti of the Shāfiʿīs: Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Faḍl al-Rāfiʿī, originally from Qazwin.
He undertook his legal studies in Nishapur under Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā; in Baghdad under Abū Manṣūr ibn al-Razzāz; and in Qazwin under Malakdād ibn ʿAlī and Abū ʿAlī ibn Shāfiʿī.
He also heard hadith from Abū al-Barakāt ibn al-Furāwī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn al-Shahhāmī, and a number of others.
He rose to pre-eminence in the Shāfiʿī school.
Among those who studied jurisprudence with him were his son—the imam and author of al-Sharḥ—Abū al-Faḍāʾil Muḥammad (1) ibn Muḥammad, together with many others.
He passed away in the month of Ramaḍān, 580 AH.
45 – Ibn al-Muṭṭalib, Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī **
The court official and statesman, Abū al-Muẓaffar Ḥasan, son of the vizier Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn