He was one of the foremost scholars of his land; he recited the Qur’an to ʿAbd Allah ibn Khalaf ibn Yabqā, and Ibn al-ʿArabī granted him an ijāza.
I say: Ibn Ghashalyān possessed an ijāza from al-Khilʿī, and this same Ibn Ṣāḥib al-Aḥkām gave authorization to Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Ṭanjālī, the teacher of Athīr al-Dīn Abū Ḥayyān.
Ibn Masdī said: I heard from him several fascicles, and he acquired the science of legal documents from his maternal uncle, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Bakrī.
Ibn Masdī narrated: “Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad informed us in 611 AH; Ibn Yabqā informed us; Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Jalīl al-Ghassānī in Kairouan informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qābisī informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Hāshim informed us; ʿĪsā ibn Miskīn informed us; Sahnūn narrated to us; al-Qāsim transmitted a hadith.” Ibn Masdī then said, “This is the loftiest chain of transmission to al-Qābisī.”
I remark: He is correct—provided no transmitter has been omitted!
46 – al-Jājaramī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-Faḍl al-Sahlī *
The erudite scholar, author of al-Kifāyah (1), Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-Faḍl al-Sahlī, a Shafiʿi, titled Maʿīn al-Dīn, and the mufti of Nishapur.
He also produced the two-volume work Iḍāḥ al-Wajīz.
Leading imams completed their studies under him.