the Chief Judge Jamal al-Din Muhammad.
He wrote a great deal.
Among those who narrated from him were: al-Barzali, al-Diyaʾ, al-Sayf Ahmad ibn al-Majd, Ibn al-ʿAdim and his son Majd al-Din, Abu Ishaq Ibn al-Wasiti, al-Shams Ibn al-Zayn, al-Amin Ahmad ibn al-Ashtari, al-Kamal Ahmad ibn al-Nasibi, al-Shams Ahmad al-Khaburi, and many others.
He passed away on the tenth of Jumada al-Akhira in 623 AH, at the age of eighty-nine.
I met no one who had actually heard from him, though a group of his pupils did grant me authorization to transmit his narrations.
182 – al-Dāhirī ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad *
The shaykh and hadith transmitter—illiterate yet reliable—Abu al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Salām, son of the imām ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Bakrān al-Dāhirī, from Baghdad; a cobbler and leather-worker who used to stitch silk onto leather socks.
Born: around the year 546 AH (1).
He heard hadith from: Naṣr ibn Naṣr al-ʿUkbarī, Abu Bakr Ibn al-Zāghūnī, Abu al-Waqt al-Sijzī, Abu al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Qafrajala, the vizier ʿAwn al-Din Yaḥyā ibn Hubayra, Hibat Allāh al-Shiblī, Abu al-ʿAbbās Ibn Nāqa, Hibat Allāh al-Daqāq, and many others.