- Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ash-Sharqī.
He studied under ad-Dhuhlī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hāshim, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bishr, Aḥmad ibn al-Azhar, Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr Zāj al-Marwazī, and several others.
Among those who narrated from him were Abū Bakr ibn Isḥāq aṣ-Ṣibghī, Abū ʿAlī the ḥāfiẓ, Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḥarbī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdūs, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī, and others besides.
Al-Ḥākim related that he once saw him: a tall, dark-complexioned shaykh, with students and their inkwells seated before him. He added, “In the medical sciences he was the unrivalled scholar of his day.”⦗1⦘ Al-Ḥākim further remarked, “He never abandoned drinking (wine) until he died.”⦗2⦘ People censured him for that,⦗3⦘ and his brother therefore deemed it impermissible for them to receive transmission from him.
Al-Ḥākim recorded that he passed away in 328 AH. Abū Ḥāmid had died earlier, in the month of Ramaḍān 325 AH, and their aforementioned brother led the congregation in the funeral prayer for him.
In that same year, the noble musnid of Baghdad, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn-