Al-Abbār (1) said: “He was exceedingly prolific and ever on the road. Some of our teachers judged him unstable, yet people still flocked to him. Abū Sulaymān ibn Ḥūṭ Allah and the leading figures among our colleagues received narrations from him, and he granted me an ijāza as well. His first journey in pursuit of knowledge was in 562 AH.”
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal (2), in the year 621 AH, while at sea on his way to Málaga.
Ibn al-Zubayr said: “He heard the Muwaṭṭaʾ from Ibn Ḥunayn in Fez, who related it from Ibn al-Ṭallāʿ.”
I (al-Dhahabī) say: He possessed elevated isnāds to Mālik that he had taken from Shahdah.
139 – al-Rāfiʿī, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm *
Shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs, scholar of Persians and Arabs alike, Imām al-Dīn, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Karīm, son of the luminary Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Rāfiʿī, of Qazwīn.
He was born in 555 AH.
He studied under his father in 569 AH.
He transmitted from his father, and from ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī al-Futūḥ ibn ʿImrān the jurist, and from Ḥāmid ibn —