She was born in 523 AH (1); some have said (2) 518 AH, and others 524 AH.
She died in Damascus on the twenty-eighth of Rabiʿ al-Awwal, 604 AH.
229 – ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī al-Muṭahhar al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Iṣbahānī
The eminent shaykh, authoritative transmitter, and widely-travelled scholar, Abū al-Qāsim al-Iṣbahānī, known as al-Ṣaydalānī.
He heard hadith from: his father; Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Thaqafī; Fāṭimah al-Jawzdānīyah; Ismāʿīl al-Ikhshīdh; and Ibn Abī Dharr al-Ṣāliḥānī.
He also attended in person and heard from ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Dashtaj, a companion of Abū Nuʿaym. He lived to an advanced age, for he was born in Dhu al-Ḥijjah, 514 AH.
Those who narrated from him include the two ḥuffāẓ, al-Ḍiyāʾ and Ibn Khalīl, along with many others.
He granted authorization to Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, al-Kamāl ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr, Aḥmad ibn Shaybān, and al-Fakhr ʿAlī.
He died in Isfahān in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 605 AH.
Aḥmad ibn Salāmah and ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad have informed us in writing, on the authority of ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn