Aḥmad ibn al-Mufarraj ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Maslamah al-Dimashqī, superintendent of the Orphans’ Endowments.
He was born in 555 AH.
He heard ḥadith from the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir, Abū al-Yusr Shākir al-Tanūkhī, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbdān.
He also received written authorization from Hibat Allāh ibn Hilāl al-Daqqāq, Abū al-Ḥasan Ibn Tāj al-Qurrāʾ, Abū al-Fatḥ Ibn al-Baṭṭī, Shaykh Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī, Aḥmad ibn al-Muqarrib, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Ḥarrānī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyā al-Zahrī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣābī, Maʿmar ibn al-Fākhir, Kharīfa ibn al-Hāṭarā, and many others. From a number of them he was the sole transmitter. He narrated extensively and was trustworthy, dignified, awe-inspiring, and commendable in conduct. He compiled a three-part Mashyakha, all of which we have heard.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Dimyāṭī; al-Fāriqī, shaykh of the Dār al-Ḥadīth; Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār; al-ʿImād Ibn al-Bālisī; Shams al-Dīn Ibn al-Tāj; his grand-nephew ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Maslamah; Bahāʾ al-Dīn Ibn Nūḥ; Maḥmūd Ibn al-Marātibī; Muḥammad Ibn al-Muḥibb; al-Shams Muḥammad Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ; Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Sakākinī; and others.
He passed away on 18 Dhū al-Qaʿda 650 AH.
191 – al-Ṣāghānī, Abū al-Faḍāʾil al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan: the shaykh, the imam, the erudite scholar, the ḥadith master, leading authority on the Arabic language, Raḍiyy al-Dīn, Abū al-Faḍāʾil.