al-Nasāʾī judged him trustworthy.
Al-Ḥākim said, “Reliable and dependable.”
Al-Qabbānī reported: “He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 248 AH.”
Aḥmad ibn Khalīl al-Burjulānī, the teacher of al-Najjād, will be mentioned later (1).
152 – Aḥmad ibn al-Khalīl al-Nawfalī al-Qūmisī *
He transmitted ḥadith from al-Aṣmaʿī, Abū al-Naḍr, al-Anṣārī, and al-Muqriʾ.
Those who narrated from him include Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbdaka and several others.
He is weak.
153 – Dhū al-Nūn al-Miṣrī, Thawbān ibn Ibrāhīm **
The ascetic, spiritual master of Egypt, Thawbān ibn Ibrāhīm.
It is also said that his name was Fayḍ ibn Aḥmad, and others say Fayḍ ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nūbī, al-Ikhmīmī (2).
His kunya was Abū al-Fayḍ, though some called him Abū al-Fayyāḍ.
He was born toward the end of the reign of al-Manṣūr.
(1) He is mentioned in: Tarikh Baghdad, 4:133; Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 21; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 1:10. Other notices appear in: al-Jarh wa-l-Ta‘dil, 2:50; Tabaqat al-Hanabilah, 1:42; Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 21; Mizan al-I‘tidal, 1:96; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 1:10–11; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 1:28; Lisan al-Mizan, 1:167; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 6; Hilyat al-Awliya, 9:331, 391 and 10:3–4; Tarikh Baghdad, 8:393; al-Ansab, 1:135; al-Lubab, 1:35; Wafayat al-A‘yan, 1:315, 318; al-Ibar, 1:444; al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 10:347; al-Nujum al-Zahira, 2:320–321; Tabaqat al-Awliya, pp. 218, 223; Tabaqat al-Sufiyya, pp. 15, 26; Tabaqat al-Sha‘rani, 1:81, 84; al-Risala al-Qushayriyya, p. 211.
(2) The nisba is vocalized with a kasra under the hamza, a silent kha, and a ya with two dots below, flanked by two mims each bearing a kasra; it points to Ikhmim, a town in Upper Egypt.