—from the wages he earned copying manuscripts, and he was the scholar upon whom fatwā-giving in Isfahān chiefly relied.

Judge Ibn Khallikān (1) said: “He was one of the eminent jurists. He authored a book clarifying the problematic passages in al-Ghazālī’s al-Wajīz and al-Wasīṭ, as well as a work entitled Tatimmat al-Tatimmat. He died in Isfahān on the twenty-second of Ṣafar, 600 AH.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Ḍiyāʾ remarked: “Our shaykh was an Imām and author; he held dictation sessions and preached, then later abandoned preaching. He compiled a volume he called Āfāt al-Wuʿāẓ (The Pitfalls of Preachers). I heard from him al-Ṭabarānī’s Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr.”

206 – al-Saffār, Abū Saʿd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad
The shaykh, the Imām, the erudite scholar, the long-lived centenarian, the Pride of Islam: Abū Saʿd ʿAbd Allāh, son of the scholar Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr, grandson of the jurist of Khurāsān Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Ḥabīb ibn al-Saffār al-Naysābūrī, the Shāfiʿī.

Born: 508 AH.

He received ḥadith from his maternal grandfather, the Imām Abū Naṣr ibn al-Qushayrī, and he was the last person to narrate from him.

He also heard from al-Farāwī (2) the complete Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim, and from ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn—