and he was present at public audition sessions in the year 37 and on subsequent occasions. Among the pieces he heard directly was Juzʾ al-Baytūta from Fāṭima bint Muḥammad al-Baghdādī.

He also received narration from Ghānim ibn Khālid the merchant, Ghānim ibn Aḥmad al-Julūdī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥammāmī, and Abū al-Khayr al-Bāghbān.

In Hamadhān he studied under Naṣr ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Barmakī; in Kūfa under Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ghabrah; and in Baghdad under Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Baṭṭī.

Ibn Nuqṭah said—and I have read this in his own handwriting (1)—“More than one informant told me that he heard Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī from Ghānim ibn Aḥmad and from Fāṭima, who themselves had taken it from Saʿīd al-ʿAyyār; he likewise heard it from Abū al-Waqt (2). He also heard the work al-Duʿāʾ by Ibn Fuḍayl (3) from Ibn Ghabrah.”

I myself heard from him in Isfahan, and he related to me from his shaykh Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī—who was the leading shaykh in Isfahan, widely esteemed, of high standing, and generous toward the scholars. News reached us of his death in Isfahan in the year 24 (4).

I say: those who transmitted from him include al-Zakī al-Barzalī, al-Ṣadr al-Bakrī, Ibn al-Najjār, and the ḥāfiẓ al-Ḍiyāʾ.

Al-Mundhirī stated (5): “He died in Rajab, or in Shaʿbān.”

154 – al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Maqdisī *
The shaykh, imam, scholar, mufti, and hadith expert, Bahāʾ al-Dīn, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān