, in Cairo, aged seventy-two. (1)
175 – Ibn Burandāz, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Nafīs al-Baghdādī *
The venerable shaykh, authoritative transmitter, and court chamberlain (2), Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Nafīs ibn Burandāz ibn Ḥusām al-Baghdādī.
He was born in 538 AH.
He heard hadith from Abū Muḥammad Ibn al-Mādiḥ, Abū al-Muẓaffar Ibn al-Turaykī, Maḥmūd Furjah, Abū al-Waqt al-Sijzī, ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣayrafī, Abū al-Maʿālī Ibn al-Laḥḥās, Ibn al-Baṭṭī, and others.
His son—the noted hadith scholar ʿAbd al-Laṭīf—compiled for him a mashyakhah (register of his teachers).
Among those who narrated from him were al-Barzālī, al-Sayf Ibn al-Majd, al-Taqī Ibn al-Wāsiṭī, al-Shams Ibn al-Zayn, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Ibn al-Zajjāj, and Muḥammad ibn al-Murayḥ al-Najjār.
By ijāzah, he was also transmitted from by Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abarqūhī and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Ibn al-Wāsiṭī.
He died on 27 Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 623 AH.
Ibn al-Najjār (3) said: “He was of Turkish stock; he had memorized the Qur’an and pursued fiqh.”