Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Baghdādī, one of the indefatigable travelers who amassed a large body of narrations.
He heard hadith from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Akhdar, Ibn Manīnā, Masʿūd ibn Barakah, ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ruhāwī, Abū al-Yaman al-Kindī, al-Iftikhār al-Hāshimī, and many others.
He was praised for the speed and accuracy of his reading, though his handwriting was notoriously poor. A leading champion of the Sunnah, he authored several works.
He died in the prime of his life, in Jumada al-Ūlā (1), 643 AH.
- Ibn Shuhānah — ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Barakāt al-Khurasānī
The hadith scholar of Khurasan, Sirāj al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Barakāt ibn Shuhānah.
He travelled far and wide, endured hardship, and distinguished himself in the science of hadith.
He heard from Abū al-Qāsim Ibn al-Harastānī, al-Iftikhār al-Ḥalabī, Dāwūd ibn Mulāʿib, and Mismār ibn al-ʿUways.
He was reliable and insightful.
He passed away in Jumada al-Ākhira, 643 AH, in Mayyāfāriqīn.
= 1432; Dhayl Tabaqat al-Hanabila by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, vol. 2, p. 233, entry 340; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 5/219.
(1) Al-Sharaf al-Husayni states that his death occurred on the third of Jumada al-Ula, a date likewise adopted by al-Dhahabi in Tarikh al-Islam and by Ibn al-Imad in al-Shadharat.
(*) Further references: Ibn al-Shiʿar al-Mawsili, Uqud al-Juman fi Shuʿaraʾ hadha al-Zaman (MS Asʿad Efendi 2324) fol. 246b; Sila al-Takmila by Sharaf al-Din al-Husayni, fol. 34, where he notes that the shaykh was renowned for diligent study but died before realising his goal; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam (Aya Sofya 3013) vol. 20, fol. 29, who gives him the kunyah Abu Muhammad, describes him as al-Harrani, and reports that Abu Nasr al-Shirazi received an ijaza from him; al-Dhahabi also lists him among those who died that year in Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 4/1432. He is further treated in Ibn Rajab’s Dhayl Tabaqat al-Hanabila, 2/240–241, entry 346, where the word shahana is vocalised with a damma on the shin, a fatha on the soft ha, followed by a nun.