Ibn al-Hājib said, “He would stay with certain relatives of his, and we had to struggle to reach him; they would not let us in.”

I (the author) add: His health broke down and he became poor. He still possessed some of the transmissions of the ḥadith master Abū Nuʿaym which he had heard from Ibn Nāṣir.

Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Dubaythī, Ibn al-Najjār, Ibn al-Majd, Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Wāsiṭī, and others; the last of them whom I met in person—belonging to the fourth tier—was al-ʿImād Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ṭabbāl.

By his ijāzah (formal authorization) I read before Abū al-Ḥusayn Ibn al-Yūnīnī and Fāṭimah bint Sulaymān.

He died on 12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah in the year 625 AH (1).

Among the pieces he had personally heard were five fascicles of al-Hilyah, including the seventy-seventh and the one following it, all from Ibn Nāṣir.

161 – The Father of al-Abarqūhī, Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muʾayyad al-Hamadānī

Judge, useful traditionist, and scholar, Rafīʿ al-Dīn Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muʾayyad al-Hamadānī—later resident in Egypt, a Shāfiʿī.

He was born sometime after 580 AH.

He heard ḥadith from al-Ghaznawī (2) and al-Artaḥī (3), and in Damascus from Ibn