entitled al-Radd ʿalā al-Lafẓiyyah (Refutation of the Lafẓiyyah). It opens with the words: “Praise belongs to Allah, who has praised Himself and has commanded His servants to praise Him….” In it he compiled an extensive treatise on that subject.

He journeyed far and wide and heard ḥadith from Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī, al-Ḥumaydī, Abū Nuʿaym Ārim, Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, al-Tabūdhakī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ, and their contemporaries.

He accompanied al-Bukhārī in the search for knowledge for a time, and he authored a work entitled al-Ahwāʾ wa-l-Ikhtilāf (Passions and Disagreement).

He was reliable, an imām, pious, ascetic, devoted to Allah, firmly committed to the sunnah and its observance. He met Abū Nuʿaym, his senior-most teacher, and held the view that intoxicating nabīdh is prohibited.

His father had been among the leading pupils of Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan; the leadership of the Ḥanafīs in Bukhārā devolved upon him and then upon this son of his, Abū ʿAbd Allāh.

A number of leading scholars studied jurisprudence under him.

Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Mandah said: Abū ʿAbd Allāh died in Ramadan, d. 264 AH.

I say: Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿIṣmah Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Yashkurī, ʿAbdān ibn Yūsuf, ʿAlī ibn Ḥasan ibn ʿAbdah, and others; the last of them to die was Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Bukhārī.

241 – Zagāth, Abū Mūsā ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī* (1)
The shaykh, ḥāfiẓ, and trustworthy authority, Abū Mūsā ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sinān ibn