170 – al-Isfarāyīnī, Majd al-Din Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar *

The ascetic traditionist, Majd al-Din Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Abū Bakr al-Ṣūfī, al-Isfarāyīnī, known as Ibn al-Ṣaffār, a resident of Damascus.

He transmitted ḥadith from al-Muʾayyad al-Ṭūsī—specifically his copy of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim—as well as from Zaynab al-Shaʿrīyya and a number of others.

He served as reader in the Dār al-Ḥadīth under Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ; his recitation was graceful, he was upright, and he maintained a composed silence.

Among those who narrated from him were Zayn al-Din al-Fāriqī, Sharaf al-Din al-Fazārī, Bahāʾ al-Din ibn al-Maqdisī, Jalāl al-Din al-Nābulusī the judge, and ʿAlāʾ al-Din ibn al-Shāṭibī.

He died at al-Sumaysāṭiyya in the month of Dhū al-Qaʿda ⦗1⦘, in 646 AH.

He was the father of the jurist Majd al-Din ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shāfiʿī, one of our teachers.

171 – al-Ṭarrāz, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAlī al-Anṣārī **

The Imām, erudite scholar, Qurʾān reciter and master of tajwīd, ḥāfiẓ and traditionist, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn