—al-Ṣaffār; Abū Ḥāmid ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Thābit al-Nakhkhās; the ḥadith master ʿAbd al-Ghanī; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Mawāhib al-Warrāq; al-Rukn al-Tāwūsī, head of the Ṣūfī order in Qazwīn; Fāṭima bint Saʿd al-Khayr; Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Qāsim, son of the ḥāfiẓ; Muḥammad ibn Ṣāfī al-Naqqāsh; Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Āmulī, the Qurʾān-reciter; and Ṣunʿat al-Mulk Hibat Allāh ibn Ḥaydarah.

211 – al-Artaāḥī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ḥamd ibn Ḥāmid

A trustworthy, upright, devout shaykh and authoritative transmitter: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad, son of the righteous shaykh Abū al-Thanāʾ (1) Ḥamd ibn Ḥāmid ibn Mufarrij ibn Ghiyāth al-Anṣārī, al-Shāmī, al-Artaāḥī (2), who later settled in Egypt; he was Hanbalī and belonged to the al-Ādamī family.

He was born circa 507 AH.

Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Farrāʾ granted him authorization for his narrations in 518 AH; he transmitted a great deal through that licence and was the sole narrator of many of those reports. In his later years he heard ḥadith from ʿAlī ibn Naṣr al-Artaāḥī and from al-Mubārak ibn al-Ṭabbākh in Mecca.

He came from a household dedicated to the Qurʾān, ḥadith, and righteousness.