and we learned that he also held written authorizations from Abū al-Faḍl ibn ʿAsākir, Fāṭimah bint Sulaymān, al-Amīn ibn Ruslān al-Baʿlī, Qāḍī Taqī al-Dīn Sulaymān, and others besides.
He possessed the loftiest isnāds of anyone in his time at Isfahān.
Ibn al-Najjār said: “He is a preacher and a muftī, a follower of the Shāfiʿī school, well-versed in ḥadīth, and enjoys wide acceptance among his townspeople. He narrated to me the Bībāʾī fascicle from Abū al-Waqt, though there is some weakness in it. We were further told that he was killed in Isfahān, martyred at the hands of the Tatars, in the last days of Ramaḍān, 632 AH.”
I (the author) add: Isfahān had remained safe from the infidels until that date; then they overran it, and innumerable people were put to the sword, among them a number of transmitters (1).
241 – Shaʿrānah, Muḥammad ibn Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī *
The ascetic, Wajīh al-Dīn Muḥammad, son of Abū Ghālib Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī.
He heard the Ṣaḥīḥ in Isfahān from Abū al-Waqt.
In 631 AH he granted authorization to Fāṭimah bint Sulaymān, Ibrāhīm al-Mukharamī, and the Ḥanbalī judge (2).
242 – Ibn ʿImād, Muḥammad ibn ʿImād ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī **
The eminent shaykh and trustworthy transmitter, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿImād ibn Muḥammad ibn