112 – The Daughter of al-Maḥāmilī: Amat al-Wāḥid bint al-Ḥusayn *
A scholar, jurist, and muftiyah, Amat al-Wāḥid bint al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl.
She studied jurisprudence under her father and narrated hadith from him, from Ismāʿīl al-Warrāq, and from ʿAbd al-Ghāfir al-Ḥimṣī. She had committed the Quran to memory, mastered Shāfiʿī law, the rules of inheritance, the intricate “turning” cases (masāʾil al-dawr), Arabic grammar, and other disciplines.
Her given name was Suteita.
Al-Barqānī said: “She used to issue legal opinions alongside Abū ʿAlī ibn Abī Hurayrah.” ⦗1⦘
Others said: “She was one of the people most proficient in memorising fiqh.”
Al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Khallāl narrated from her. ⦗2⦘
She died in 377 AH.
She was the mother of the judge Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim al-Maḥāmilī.
113 – Ibn Shanbūdh: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb **
The shaykh of the Quran reciters, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn al-Ṣalt ibn Shanbūdh, the reciter.
He travelled far and wide in search of knowledge.