the merchant, a Shi‘ite.
Born: 527 AH.
He heard ḥadith from Abū al-Faḍl al-Urmawī, Mawhūb ibn al-Jawāliqī, Hibat Allāh ibn Abī Sharīk, Muḥammad ibn Ṭirād, Ibn Nāṣir, Saʿd al-Khayr, and several others.
While in Damascus he studied under Nāṣir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Najjār, Abū al-Qāsim Ibn al-Bunn, and a number of scholars; in al-Thaghr (1) under al-Silafī; and in Egypt under Ibn Rifāʿah and others.
He narrated in these lands and copied a great many works.
Ibn al-Dubaythī (2) said: “He was eager to attend audition sessions and to collect individual fascicles, though his knowledge was slight; still, he was reliable.”
I add: His father was from Karak Nūḥ; both Ibn Nuqṭah and al-Mundhirī record the second consonant as quiescent. As for Karak al-Shawbak, it is pronounced with a vowel.
Among those who transmitted from him are al-Dubaythī, Ibn Khalīl, and—before either of them—the ḥadith scholar Ibn al-Mufaḍḍal.
He granted an authorization to Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr.
Shaykh al-Ḍiyāʾ said: “He was a Shi‘ite, an extremist.”