Volume Twenty-Three
1 – Ibn Yasin, Abū Manṣūr Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, the cloth-merchant known as al-Saffār
A shaykh, a trustworthy transmitter, and an inveterate pilgrim: Abū Manṣūr Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Yāsīn ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Mufarrij al-Baghdādī, the cloth-dealer (al-Bazzāz) and al-Saffār.
He heard from: Abū al-Fatḥ Ibn al-Baṭṭī, Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Dāmghānī, and his sister Turkunāz.
Those who narrated from him include: the shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Fārūthī and Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Balbān.
Among those who received written authorization (ijāza) from him were the two judges, Ibn al-Khuwayyī and al-Ḥanbalī; Fakhr Ibn ʿAsākir; Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir; and Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Shīrāzī.
Ibn Anjab said in his History ⦗1⦘: “He performed forty-nine pilgrimages.”
I (the author) say: His legal testimony was rejected because of his reprehensible conduct and wrongdoing.
He died on the fifth of Ṣafar in the year 634 AH.