238 – al-Karkhī, ʿUbayd Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Dallāl *

The shaykh, the imām, the ascetic, the Muftī of Iraq, the shaykh of the Ḥanafīs, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿUbayd Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Dallāl al-Baghdādī, al-Karkhī, the jurist.

He heard ḥadith from Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq al-Qāḍī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥaḍramī, and a group of others.

Those who transmitted from him include Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayyūyah, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn, the judge ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Akfānī, the erudite Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī the Ḥanafī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Tanūkhī, and others.

The leadership of the school culminated with him; his students spread across the lands; his name became famous and his reputation far-reaching. He was one of the scholar-devotees—given to night vigil, regular devotions, deep piety, patient with poverty and need, possessing complete detachment and a commanding presence in people’s hearts. Among his foremost pupils was the aforementioned Abū Bakr al-Rāzī.

He lived for eighty years.

Musallam ibn Muḥammad wrote to me; Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan informed us; Abū Manṣūr al-Shaybānī informed us; Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb informed us. He said:

al-Ṣaymarī narrated to me; he said:

Abū al-Qāsim ibn ʿAllān al-Wāsiṭī narrated to me; he said:

When paralysis (fālij) struck Abū al-Ḥasan al-Karkhī at the end of his life, I was present with him along with his companions—Abū Bakr al-Dāmaghānī, Abū ʿAlī al-Shāshī, and Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Baṣrī. They said, “This illness requires expenditure…"