65 – al-Ḥalāwī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Mubārak ibn al-Ḥusayn
The shaykh, imam, Qur’an reciter, and long-lived scholar: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Suʿūd al-Mubārak ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭālib al-Ḥarbī, known as al-Ḥalāwī.
A venerable, very aged man, records surfaced (1) after his death showing that he had heard ḥadith from Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Sarrāj in the year 499 AH, and in 506 AH from ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Anbārī.
Forty nights before he died, he also obtained written authorization from Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Tikkakī, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Ṭyūrī, and others. Consequently, students of ḥadith flocked to him, reading in his presence under those authorizations, and the crowds around him grew large.
Ibn al-Najjār said: He heard ḥadith from his father and from the judge Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn al-Farrāʾ, and they transmitted to us on his authority.
Al-Dubaythī (2) reported that he died on the twenty-ninth (3) of Dhū al-Qaʿdah 586 AH, having lived ninety-odd years.
It is also said that he was born in Mecca in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of 494 AH (4).