Among his more unusual rulings is the view that when a judge wishes to contract the marriage of a woman who has no guardian, he may represent both sides of the contract himself; it is said that he actually did so for his own marriage in Damascus. (1)

He is also quoted as saying, “If, in a qirāḍ (profit-sharing partnership), the owner of the capital stipulates that he will work alongside the agent, the condition is valid.” (2) Al-ʿAbbādī cites this opinion from him in the book al-Raqm.

He died in 330 AH.

136 – ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Salāmah, Abū Hāshim al-Ḥaḍramī *
A ḥadith scholar and authoritative ḥujjah, Abū Hāshim al-Ḥaḍramī was originally from Ḥimṣ and later settled in Basra.

He taught in al-Madāʾin, narrating from Kathīr ibn ʿUbayd and Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān.

Those who transmitted from him include al-Dāraqutnī, Ibn Shāhīn, Ibn Jāmiʿ al-Dahhān, Ibn al-Ṣalt al-Ahwāzī, Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī, and Ibn Jumayʿ.

Al-Khaṭīb declared him reliable. (3)

He passed away in 330 AH.

137 – Ibn Ḥujr, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Raqqī **
The muhaddith, reliable and widely travelled, Abū al-Ṭayyib ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Sulaymān Ayyūb ibn Ḥujr al-Raqqī, later known as al-Ṣūrī.