He heard from Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Rahabī, Abū al-Makārim Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ẓāhirī, and Shuhda al-Kātiba; from her he received authorisation for the two-volume work Maṣāriʿ al-ʿUshshāq, among other books.
He also studied under Abū Naṣr Yaḥyā ibn al-Saddank and Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Sammāk.
Al-ḥāfiẓ Abū Muḥammad al-Dimyāṭī narrated from him and said, “He passed away on the last day of Jumada I, 649 AH.”
He granted teaching licences to Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Shīrāzī, ʿAlī Ibn al-Sakākirī, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Taymiyyah, and a number of others.
165 – Ibn al-Mannī, Abū al-Muẓaffar Muḥammad ibn Muqbil ibn Fityān al-Nahrāwī
The mufti, long-lived scholar of hadith, titled Sayf al-Din: Abū al-Muẓaffar Muḥammad ibn Muqbil ibn Fityān ibn Maṭar al-Nahrāwīnī, known as Ibn al-Mannī, the Ḥanbalī.
Born in 567 AH (1).
He studied with Shuhda al-Kātiba, receiving her compilation of teachers, with Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, Asʿad ibn Yaldark, and the poet Ḥayṣa Bayṣa.
He recited the Qur’an in the ten canonical readings to Ibn al-Bāqillānī.
Among those who transmitted from him are Ibn al-Ḥulwāniyya, al-Sharīshī, al-Dimyāṭī, Muḥammad ibn Baraka al-Shamʿī, Shaykh Muḥammad al-Qazzāz, and several others.