and he taught hadith in Mecca, Egypt (1), Syria, and Baghdad.
Among those who narrated from him were Ibn Khalīl, al-Qūṣī, Isḥāq ibn Balkūyah, al-Jamāl ibn al-Ṣayrafī, al-Qutb al-Zuhrī, Ibn Abī ʿUmar, Ibn al-Bukhārī, and others.
He granted an ijāza to our shaykh, ʿUmar ibn al-Qawwās.
Ibn al-Dubaythī (2) said: “He was a fine, intelligent shaykh. He kept company with the Sufis, cultivated proper manners through them, and heard a large body of hadith. He told me, ‘I was born in 536 AH. I resided in Mecca for a time, then travelled on to Egypt and afterwards to Damascus.’”
Ibn al-Najjār said: “He was among the notable Sufis, distinguished by a handsome white beard and pleasing appearance; no one who sat with him ever tired of his company.”
He died in mid-Dhuʾl-Qaʿdah 612 AH, in the Summaysāṭī quarter, and he copied many fascicles in his own hand.
43 – al-Milanji, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim
The useful hadith scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Milanji, the Iṣfahānī, a cotton merchant and tutor (3).