and Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Mandāʾī; ʿAzz ibn Karam al-Ḥarbī, the cobbler; Hamzah ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAtīq ibn Aws al-Ghazzāl; ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Khalaf, Ḍiyāʾ al-Ṣāliḥī al-Ḥanbalī; al-Mukhlis ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Makārim ibn Hilāl; Abū al-Wafāʾ ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn al-Ḥanbalī; ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿUthmān ibn Asʿad ibn al-Munajjā, together with his uncle, the judge Shams al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Asʿad; Karīmah daughter of ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, in Egypt; Qaysar ibn Fayrūz, the doorkeeper; and the hadith scholar Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muḥārib al-Qaysī in Alexandria.
- al-Ṣarīfīnī — Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Azhar
The shaykh, imām, hadith scholar, ḥāfiẓ, indefatigable traveler, Taqī al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Azhar ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿIrāqī, known as al-Ṣarīfīnī, the Ḥanbalī.
Birth: Sarifīn, 581 AH.
He studied under Hanbal; Ibn Tabarzadh in Irbil; Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Akhdar and his circle in Baghdad; Abū al-Yumn al-Kindī and his circle in Damascus; al-Muʾayyad al-Ṭūsī; Zaynab al-Shaʿriyya in Nishapur; Abū Rūḥ al-Harawī in Herat; ʿAlī ibn Manṣūr al-Thaqafī in Isfahan; and ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī in Harran. He wrote copiously, collected traditions, and taught widely, and he was counted among the scholars of hadith.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn al-Ḥulwāniyya, and Majd al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿAdīm.