and al-Mūsiyābādī. He lived seventy-four years and was distinguished by a dignified bearing, long periods of silence, lofty standing, and abundant merit. He was devoted to regular litanies, known for his forbearance and deliberation.

58 – Ibn al-Harastānī, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī
The shaykh, imām, scholar, mufti, long-lived righteous man, leading transmitter of Syria, Shaykh al-Islām, Chief Judge, Jamāl al-Dīn, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Faḍl ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Anṣārī al-Dimashqī, a Shāfiʿī, known as Ibn al-Harastānī, was a descendant of Saʿd ibn ʿUbāda (may Allah be pleased with him).

He was born in one of the two months of Rabīʿ in 520 AH.

In 525 AH and afterwards he auditioned hadith from ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥamza, Ṭāhir ibn Sahl, Jamāl al-Islām ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam, the jurist Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṭāwūs, ʿAlī ibn Qubays al-Mālikī, Maʿālī ibn al-Ḥubūbī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Bunn al-Asadī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Murādī, and others.

He compiled a Mashyakha that has been preserved in a transmitted booklet.

He was granted authorization by Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Farāwī, Hibat Allāh ibn Sahl al-Sayyidī, and Zāhir.