He heard ḥadith from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, Aslam ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Lubābah, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Naffāḥ al-Bāhilī and the scholars of their generation in Egypt; from Saʿīd ibn Hāshim al-Ṭabarānī and others in Syria. He then returned home and, in his advanced years, set out on further travels.

He died in Greater Syria, at Tripoli, in 341 AH.

Those who transmitted from him include ʿUmar ibn Numārah al-Andalusī and Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Naḥḥās.

281 – Al-Tanūkhī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fahm*

The judge and eminent scholar, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fahm al-Tanūkhī, a Ḥanafī.

Birth: Antioch, 278 AH.

He heard ḥadith from Aḥmad ibn Khulayd al-Ḥalabī, al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥabīb—one of Musaddad’s disciples—and ʿUmar ibn Abī Ghaylān.

He was a Muʿtazilite, a disputant, an astrologer, a poet and a man of letters, and he served as judge of Ahwāz (1).