frequent in pilgrimage, worship, secluded devotion, fasting, and striving in Allah’s cause; he performed the pilgrimage every year along the Lady’s route (1).

Among those who narrated from him were al-Diyaʾ, Ibn al-Dubaythī, Ibn al-Najjār, Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Quṭb al-Dīn Ibn al-Qastalānī, and al-Shihāb al-Abarqūhī.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “He strove much in devotion and worship, perpetually fasting whether travelling or resident. He was versed in the words of the masters and the spiritual states of the folk, and he possessed knowledge, memorization, and precision. He was trustworthy. He later became the imam of the Maqām, remaining so until he died in Ṣafar of the year 624 AH, in Mecca.”

145 – Ibn Shirawayh, Abū Muslim Aḥmad ibn Shirawayh al-Daylamī *

The shaykh, Abū Muslim Aḥmad ibn Shirawayh ibn Shahardār ibn Shirawayh al-Daylamī, al-Hamadhānī.

He heard from his grandfather, Naṣr ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Barmakī, Abū al-Waqt al-Sijzī, Abū al-Khayr al-Bāghbān, and a group of others.

Narrators from him include al-Zakī al-Barzalī and al-Diyaʾ al-Maqdisī, and he granted a licence to al-Fakhr ʿAlī.

Ibn Nuqṭah (2) said: “He was a prolific and reliable transmitter whose auditions were sound; I heard from him in Hamadhān.”