Abū Shāma ⦗1⦘ said, “He was a consummate Qur’an reciter; he read to al-Kindī and to Abū al-Jūd, and he benefited from our teacher al-Sakhāwī in mastering the Shāṭibiyya.”
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal ⦗2⦘, in the year 643 AH.
138 – Ibn al-Muʿawwij, Manṣūr ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī
The shaykh, Abū Ghālib Manṣūr ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Ghālib Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sakan al-Baghdādī, al-Marātibī, al-Khallāl, widely known as Ibn al-Muʿawwij.
He was born in 555 AH.
He heard ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Ṣābīʾ, Ibn al-Khāshshāb, al-Mubārak ibn Khuḍayr, and several others.
Majd al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿAdīm transmitted from him, and—by written authorization—so did Fakhr Ibn ʿAsākir, Abū al-Maʿālī Ibn al-Bālisī, the Ḥanbalī judge, ʿĪsā al-Muṭʿim, Ibn Saʿd, Aḥmad Ibn al-Shiḥna, and the six Wāsiṭī jurists.
He passed away in Jumādā al-Ākhira ⦗3⦘, 643 AH.