Ḥasan ibn Ṣadaqah al-Harrānī—the cloth-seller and coppersmith, once popularly nicknamed Ibn al-Waḥsh (1).
A venerable, long-lived, and reliable shaykh, he was devout and God-fearing, and he travelled to Khurasan and other regions on business.
In his middle age, in 528 AH, he received hadith from al-Furāwī—specifically the Ṣaḥīḥ (2)—and from others, when he was forty-one years old.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū ʿUmar al-Zāhid, his brother Shaykh al-Muwaffaq, al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Ḍiyāʾ the ḥāfiẓ, al-Ḥasan ibn Salām, Ibn Khalīl, Abū al-Maʿālī Ibn al-Shīrāzī, Ibn Saʿd, the Khaṭīb of Mardā, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī, al-ʿImād ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Naḥḥās, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Ṣaqallī, Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, and others.
Ibn al-Dubaythī also narrated—through Ibn al-Akhdar—from him.
Ibn al-Najjār (3) said: “He built a madrasa in Damascus and endowed it exclusively for the Ḥanbalīs.”
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal (4)—others say Rabīʿ al-Ākhir—of 584 AH in Damascus, at the age of ninety-four.
I (the author) add: That madrasa no longer exists.