and from him transmitted: Ibn al-Khallāl, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Fazārī, Muḥammad ibn Khaṭīb Bayt al-Abbār, and others. He was a man of considerable wealth and standing. He died in the year 642 AH (1), at something over eighty years of age (2). His son succeeded him, and he was exceedingly charitable to the Ḥanbalis.
86 – al-Kardarī, Abū al-Waḥda Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Sattār ibn Muḥammad
The erudite scholar, jurist of the East, Shams al-Aʾimmah, Abū al-Waḥda Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Sattār (3) ibn Muḥammad al-ʿImādī, al-Kardarī, the Ḥanafī, al-Barātiqīnī.
Barātiqīn is one of the districts of Kardar, and Kardar is a large region in the land of Khwarazm.
Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Faraḍī supplied me with his biography, saying:
“He is, without reservation, the teacher of the imams, the one to whom people journey from every direction. He studied in Khwarazm under Burhān al-Dīn Nāṣir ibn ʿAbd al-Sayyid al-Muṭarrizī, author of the Commentary on the Maqāmāt, and he pursued legal studies in Samarkand under”
(1) Sibṭ Ibn al-Jawzi reports in Mirat that he died in Dhu al-Hijja, while Sharaf al-Husaini, in Sila al-Takmila li-Wafayat al-Naqala, specifies 16 Dhu al-Hijja; this is also the date recorded by al-Dhahabi in Tarikh al-Islam.
(2) Sila al-Takmila li-Wafayat al-Naqala states that he was born in 565 AH (1169 CE), a datum likewise entered by al-Dhahabi in Tarikh al-Islam.
(*) Principal sources: al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, Aya Sofya MS 3013, vol. 20, extra folio after fol. 22; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat 3/254, no. 1276; al-Jawahir al-Mudiyya 2/82, no. 243; al-Asjad al-Masbuk, p. 533 (where the form “al-Kurduzi” and the attribution of “Kurduz” to the Khwarazm region are both erroneous); al-Nujum al-Zahira 6/351; Tabaqat al-Fuqaha, wrongly ascribed to Tash Kubri Zada, p. 107; Tabaqat al-Hanafiyya by al-Mawla Ali b. Amr Allah al-Hanafi, known as Qanali Zada (Prague University Library MS 79, fol. 32); Shadharat al-Dhahab 5/316; al-Fawaid al-Bahiyya, pp. 176–177.
(3) In Shadharat al-Dhahab the name is misread as: Muhammad b. Abd al-Ghaffar b. Muhammad al-Ulmawi.