—the master Qur’an reciter Abū al-Ḥasan al-Mudlijī, an Egyptian, a Mālikī, and a tailor.
He was born in Mecca in 564 AH.
He studied Sahih Muslim under Abū al-Mafākhir al-Maʾmūnī and related it on several occasions; he also held an ijāzah from al-Silafī.
Among those who transmitted ḥadith from him were the two hadith authorities al-Mundhirī and our shaykh al-Dimyāṭī, together with Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Qazzāz, al-Badr Yūsuf al-Khutanī, and others.
He was devout, virtuous, a tailor by trade, abstemious, and content.
He died in Muḥarram (1) of 651 AH. His father had been one of the pupils of Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Ḥuṭayʾah.
197 – Faraj ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Abū al-Ghayth al-Ḥabashī
The distinguished servant, Nāṣiḥ al-Dīn, Abū al-Ghayth al-Ḥabashī, was first the client of Abū Jaʿfar al-Qurṭubī and later the freedman of al-Majd al-Bahnasī.
He was born in the early 570s AH, and he received a great deal of ḥadith from al-Khushūʿī, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Abī Saʿd, al-Bahāʾ ibn ʿAsākir, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sulṭān al-Qurashī, Hanbal, Ibn Tabarzadh, al-Iftikhār al-Hāshimī in Aleppo, and from his patron Abū Jaʿfar.