al-Ṣadafī (1), the Egyptian Qur’an reciter and ḥāfiẓ.
His mother was Fulayḥah bint Abān al-Tujībiyyah.
He was born in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 170 AH.
He transmitted ḥadith from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, ʿAbdullāh ibn Wahb, al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā, Ibn Abī Fudayk, Abū Ḍamrah al-Laythī, Bishr ibn Bakr al-Tinnīsī, Ayyūb ibn Suwayd, Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Shāfiʿī, ʿAbdullāh ibn Nāfiʿ al-Ṣāʾigh, Salāmah ibn Rūḥ, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-Ṭanāfisī, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥassān, and Ashhab the jurist.
He even went so far as to narrate from men such as Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād and Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr—and there are chains in which he relates from his own disciple Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī.
He studied the Qur’an with Warsh, the student of Nāfiʿ.
He was counted among the leading scholars of his age.
Among those who received ḥadith from him are Muslim, al-Nasāʾī, Ibn Mājah, Abū Ḥātim, Abū Zurʿah, Baqī ibn Makhlad, Ibn Khuzaymah, Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād al-Naysābūrī, Abū ʿAwānah al-Isfarāʾīnī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim, ʿUmar ibn Bujayr, Abū Jaʿfar ibn Salāmah al-Ṭaḥāwī, Abū al-Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khāmī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Sufyān ibn Saʿīd al-Miṣrī—the muʾadhdhin—Abū al-Fawāris Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Sindī, and many others.
Those who recited the Qur’an to him include Mawās ibn Sahl al-Miṣrī (2) and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad.