of the armies; al-Shihāb ʿAbd al-Salām ibn al-Muṭahhar ibn Abī ʿAṣrūn; al-Sharaf ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Jubārah al-Kindī; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Rushayd al-Baghdādī; the Qurʾān reciter Taqī al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Bāsūwayh al-Wāsiṭī; the poet of his age, Sharaf al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī Ibn al-Fāriḍ al-Ḥamawī in Egypt; the shaykh of Jerusalem, Ghānim ibn ʿAlī the ascetic; the poet Ḥusām al-Dīn ʿĪsā ibn Sanjar al-Ḥājirī al-Irbilī al-Jundī; Muḥammad ibn Abī Ghālib Shaʿrānah, companion of Abū al-Waqt; a multitude cut down by the Tatar sword in Isfahan; Wāthilah ibn Baqāʾ ibn Karrāz; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Madīnī; Abū al-Wafāʾ Maḥmūd ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mandah; Abū Ṣādiq ibn Ṣabbāḥ; and Muḥammad ibn ʿImād.
240 – al-Madīnī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī Saʿd*
The shaykh, the imām, the ḥadith scholar, the mufti, the preacher, the last of the senior shaykhs: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī Saʿd al-Madīnī, al-Isfahānī, the Shāfiʿī, the exhorter.
Birth: Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 543 AH, in the city of Jayy (1).
He received the Maʾmūn fascicle and its accompanying material from the centenarian Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥammāmī.
He heard from Abū al-Waqt al-Sijzī the Bībāʾī fascicle and other works.
He also studied under Abū al-Khayr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bāghbānī and others.
Related on his authority were Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn al-Najjār, and a group of scholars.