and Saʿīd ibn Ḥadīdah al-Anṣārī of Baghdad, as well as Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Habal, the physician Muḥadhdhab al-Dīn.

17 – ʿAyn al-Shams, daughter of Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Faraj, Umm al-Nūr al-Thaqafiyyah al-Iṣbahāniyyah, the chief musnidah (hadith authority) of her time.
She was personally present in the year 524 AH (1) to hear Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ikhshīd, and she heard the “Part of Abū al-Shaykh” from Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Dharr al-Ṣāliḥānī, becoming thereafter the sole living transmitter from each of them.

She was devout and chaste, descended from a family noted for narration and sound isnāds.
Among those who received traditions from her were al-Ḍiyāʾ Muḥammad, al-Zakī al-Barzalī, al-Taqī Ibn al-ʿIzz, and several others (2).
By written authorization ­– ijāzah – she was also narrated from by al-Shams ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ al-Abharī, al-Fakhr ʿAlī, al-Shams Ibn al-Zayn, and a number of others.

She lived to be ninety years old and died in mid-Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 610 AH.

ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ informed me, on the authority of ʿAyn al-Shams, that Ibn Abī Dharr told us in 526 AH; Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm told us; Abū Bakr al-Qabbāb told us; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hārūn al-Ashʿarī told us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qādisī in ʿUkbarā told us; Muḥammad ibn Ḥammād told us, from Muqātil ibn Sulaymān – a fabricated report.

Among the works she heard directly from Ibn Abī Dharr was the book Kitāb al-Diyāt (Blood Money) by Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim,