as well as al-Shāṭibī, Abū al-Ghanāʾim Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Kahfī, and the jurist Abū Turāb Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm al-Karkhī.

59 – al-ʿAṭṭār Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad
The shaykh, the notable, the musnid, the devout, Abū al-Qāsim Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Sulamī, originally from Baghdad, a pharmacist-perfumist by trade, known as al-ʿAṭṭār.

He was born in 546 AH (1).

He studied under his father, under Abū al-Waqt al-Sijzī, and under Ibn al-Baṭṭī.

He transmitted the Ṣaḥīḥ (2), the Musnad of ʿAbd (3), and the Sunan of al-Dārimī. He would mention that he was descended from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, and he settled in Damascus.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “He had a perfume shop just outside Bāb al-Farādis. He was truthful, devout, and of commendable conduct.”

Ibn Nuqṭah (4) said: “A righteous shaykh, reliable and trustworthy.”

I say: Those who narrated from him include the two just mentioned (5), al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Mundhirī, al-Qawṣī, al-Zayn Khālid, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Nushbī, al-Rashīd al-ʿĀmirī, and al-Muḥyī ibn