and he heard the greater part of the Musnad from Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn. He was righteous and of commendable character.
He died on the twenty-ninth of Shaʿbān in the year 605 AH, at the age of ninety.
228 – Sitt al-Kuttābah Niʿmah bint ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ṭarrāḥ
Her full name is Niʿmah bint ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ṭarrāḥ.
She received from her grandfather: the book al-Kifāyah (1) by al-Khaṭīb, his Book of Misers (2), al-Jāmiʿ (3), al-Sābiq wa’l-Lāḥiq (4), the Book of Qunūt, and other works.
She also heard from Abū al-Shujāʿ al-Bisṭāmī.
She was granted authorization by Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Dharr al-Ṣāliḥānī and al-Farāwī.
Those who narrated from her include al-Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn Khalīl, al-Yaldānī, al-Mundhirī, Ibn Abī ʿUmar, al-Fakhr ʿAlī (5), and a number of others.
(*) Mirat al-zaman, vol. 8, p. 539; Takmilat al-Mundhiri, vol. 2, entry 1008; Dhayl al-Rawdatayn, p. 63; al-Mukhtasar al-muhtaj ilayh, fol. 131; al-Mushtabih, p. 581; al-Ibr, vol. 5, p. 10; Tarikh al-Islam, part 18/1, p. 161; Aqd al-juman by al-Ayni, vol. 17, fol. 313; al-Nujum al-zahira, vol. 6, p. 195; Shadharat al-dhahab, vol. 5, p. 12.
(1) Al-Kifaya fi ilm al-riwaya, printed in India.
(2) Published in Baghdad, edited by Dr. Ahmad Matlub and his team.
(3) Al-Jami li-akhlaq al-rawi wa adab al-sami; this edition was collated with the Alexandria manuscript and issued only recently.
(4) Recently published.
(5) Fakhr al-Din Ibn al-Bukhari states, in his mashyakha as transmitted by Ibn al-Zahiri al-Hanafi: “The learned shaykha and musnida, Umm Abd al-Ghani Sitt al-Kutab Ni‛ma, related to us… She arrived and conducted a public reading while I listened, in Jumada al-Ula of the year 601 AH, in Damascus” (fol. 124).