a man of sincere intent toward the faith (1), Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Maʿmar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn al-Fākhir al-Qurashī, al-ʿAbshamī, of Iṣfahān.

He was born in 520 AH (2).

He received hadith directly from Fāṭima al-Juzdāniyya, and also from Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, Ismāʿīl al-Ikhshīd, Ibn Abī Dharr (3), Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ the muezzin, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Khallāl, Zāhir al-Shahhāmī, and several others.

In Baghdad he held dictation sessions. He was a distinguished leader, dignified, a hadith scholar who benefited his listeners, versatile, thoroughly versed in the Shāfiʿī school, and he enjoyed considerable standing with the authorities.

Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn Khalīl, al-Ḍiyāʾ, Abū Mūsā ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ (4), and many others.

He granted authorisation (ijāza) to Burhān ibn al-Darajī and to Ibn al-Bukhārī.

He passed away in Shiraz, in Rabīʿ al-Awwal (5) of the year 603 AH, and he would not transmit aberrant or fabricated reports (6).