- Ibn Abī al-Majd – Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥarbī
The shaykh, long-lived and reliable, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Majd ibn Ghanāʾim al-Ḥarbī, al-ʿAttabī, the cobbler.
He is the transmitter of the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad from Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, and he also narrated from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Farrāʾ.
Among those who reported from him are: al-Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn al-Dubaythī, Ibn Khalīl, Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Anṣārī, Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, al-Najīb ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, and many of the teachers of al-Dimyāṭī.
He read the Musnad more than once in Baghdad and in Mosul, and he granted authorization to Saʿd al-Dīn al-Khaḍir ibn Ḥammūyah, to Quṭb al-Dīn Ibn ʿAsrūn, and to al-Fakhr Ibn al-Bukhārī.
His grandfather’s name was Ṣāʿid.
Abū Muḥammad died in Mosul on the twelfth of Muḥarram in 598 AH.
His father, Aḥmad (1) ibn Ṣāʿid, died in 551 AH at the age of seventy. He was the maternal half-brother of the Qurʾān-reciter ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥarbī, and both of them had heard