namely, Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad, son of Abū al-Azhar ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf al-Wāsiṭī, known as al-Kattānī and surnamed al-Muʿaddal. He and his father both held the post of ḥisba supervisor in Wāsiṭ.
He was born in 485 AH.
He studied ḥadith with (1) Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Ṣaqr al-Shāʿir, Abū Nuʿaym al-Jumārī, Abū Nuʿaym ibn Zabzab, Hibat Allāh ibn al-Saqaṭī, and others. In Baghdad he heard from Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAllāf, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bayān, Nūr al-Hudā, and he alone possessed an ijāza from Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Bāqillānī, Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-Shayḥī (2), and Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ayyūb al-Bazzāz.
Ibn al-Dubaythī listed these teachers and said: “He was trustworthy, of sound audition, deeply reverent, devoted to religion and uprightness; people journeyed to him.” He died in Wāsiṭ on the second of Muḥarram, 579 AH.
I add: Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Mawāhib ibn Ṣaṣrā, Yūsuf al-Shīrāzī, Abū Bakr al-Ḥāzimī, ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī, Abū al-Futūḥ al-Mandāʾī and his son, Abū Ṭālib ibn ʿAbd al-Samīʿ, al-Murajja ibn al-Shuqayr, and Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Dubaythī, who said: “An excellent shaykh indeed; I heard from him in 574 AH, reading the text aloud myself.”