al-Muwaffaq ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Khāzin al-Nīsābūrī—later known as al-Baghdādī—the Sufi. He was born in Ṣafar, 556 AH.
He studied with Abū Zurʿah al-Maqdisī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Muqarrab, Shuhdah the Scribe, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAqīl, and others. He is counted among the transmitters of the Musnad of al-Shāfiʿī.
Those who reported from him include Majd al-Dīn ibn al-ʿAdīm, ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Fārūthī, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn Balbān, Taqī al-Dīn ibn al-Wāsiṭī, Ibn al-Zayn, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Naḥḥās, his cousin Bahāʾ al-Dīn Ayyūb, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Sharīshī, and Tāj al-Dīn al-Gharrafī. Of the earlier authorities, Ibn al-Dubaythī and Ibn al-Najjār narrated from him, and the last to receive his narration was Baybars al-ʿAdīmī.
He was a dignified, devout shaykh, one of the notable Sufis.
Among those who obtained a general licence (ijāzah) from him were al-Muṭʿim, Ibn Saʿd, Ibn al-Shīrāzī, Bahāʾ ibn ʿAsākir, Sitt al-Fuqahāʾ bint al-Wāsiṭī, Hadiyyah bint Muʾmin, and others.
He died in Baghdad on the twenty-seventh of Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 643 AH.
96 – Ibn Abī al-Dam, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim al-Hamadhānī
The scholar Shihāb al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Dam al-Hamadhānī, from Ḥamāh, a Shāfiʿī.