Akhzam; Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr Zāj; Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd; Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī; Sulaymān ibn Maʿbad al-Sinjī; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Jarawī; Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbbās al-Riyāshī; Muḥammad ibn Ḥassān al-Azraq; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥanān; and Muḥammad ibn Wazīr al-Wāsiṭī.
65 – al-Sarī ibn al-Mughalis al-Saqaṭī
The Imām, exemplar, Shaykh al-Islām, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī.
Born: circa 160 AH.
He transmitted a small number of hadiths from al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, Hushaym ibn Bashīr, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, ʿAlī ibn Ghurāb, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, and others. Thereafter he devoted himself to worship and kept company with Maʿrūf al-Karkhī, being the most distinguished of his disciples.
Among those who related from him were: Junayd ibn Muḥammad; al-Nūrī, Abū al-Ḥusayn; Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Masrūq; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mukharrimī; and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shākir.
Ibn Shākir reports that he said: “One night, after completing my regular devotions, I stretched out my leg in the prayer-niche. A voice called, ‘O Sarī, is this how you sit in the presence of kings?’ So I pulled it back and said, ‘By Your might, I shall never stretch it out again.’ (1)
Abū Bakr al-Ḥarbī said: I heard al-Sarī say, ‘I praised Allah once, and I…’