seventy; thereafter, in 571 AH he travelled to Isfahan, stayed there for a time, and acquired a number of fine books.

Al-Ḍiyāʾ said: He was not chalk-white (1); rather, his complexion tended toward brown. His hair was pleasing, his beard thick, his forehead wide, his frame large, and his stature complete—it was as though light shone from his face. His eyesight had weakened from frequent weeping, the constant copying of manuscripts, and tireless reading.

I say (2): Those who narrated from him include Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Dīn, the ḥadith master ʿIzz al-Dīn Muḥammad, the ḥadith master Abū Mūsā ʿAbd Allāh, the jurist Abū Sulaymān and his sons, the ḥadith master Al-Ḍiyāʾ, the preacher Sulaymān ibn Raḥma al-Asʿardī, al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the shaykh and jurist Muḥammad al-Yūnīnī, al-Zayn Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, Abū ’l-Ḥajjāj ibn Khalīl, al-Taqī al-Yaldānī, al-Shihāb al-Qūṣī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Qalānsī, the exhorter ʿUthmān ibn Makkī al-Shāriʿī (3), Aḥmad ibn Ḥāmid al-Artāḥī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Qawī ibn ʿAzzūn, Abū ʿĪsā ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAllāq al-Razzāz, and many others; the last of them to die was Saʿd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muhallal al-Jīnī.

Among those who received a general ijāza (written authorization) from him was our teacher Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr al-Ḥaddād.

His writings include:
Al-Miṣbāḥ fī ʿUyūn al-Aḥādīth al-Ṣiḥāḥ (The Lantern in the Choice Selections of Sound Ḥadiths), which contains hadiths from