Ṭabrazad (1); in Wāsiṭ he studied with al-Mandāʾī (2); in Isfahan with ʿAfīfa (3); and he also took transmitters in Shiraz, Hamadan, and Baghdad.

He served as judge of Abarqūh. After his children were born he travelled with his two sons and eventually settled in Egypt. He was a dignified scholar, proficient in Qurʾān recitation and jurisprudence.

He died in 623 AH (4).

Among those who narrated from him to us was his son Abū al-Maʿālī.

162 – Ibn Ṣaṣrā, al-Ḥusayn ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Maḥfūẓ al-Rabaʿī *

The venerable shaykh, judge, and leading Syrian transmitter, Shams al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn, son of Abū al-Ghanāʾim Hibat Allāh ibn Maḥfūẓ ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣaṣrā al-Rabaʿī, al-Taghlibī, al-Jazarī, al-Baladī, al-Dimashqī, and brother of the ḥadith master Abū al-Mawāhib.

He was born in the mid-530s AH (5).

He received ḥadith from his father, his grandfather, and his maternal grandfather Abū al-Makārim ibn Hilāl; from ʿAbdān ibn Zarrīn, Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Bunn, Naṣr ibn Muqātil, and Abū Ṭālib ibn