Abū ʿUbayd; likewise Islāḥ al-Manṭiq, Sībawayh’s Book, and a number of other works. Some scholars even placed him ahead of Thaʿlab and al-Mubarrad. (1) He died in 346 AH in the Maghrib.
319 – Ibn al-Khaṣīb ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣbahānī*
The eminent imam, traditionist, and Chief Judge, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Khaṣīb ibn al-Ṣaqr al-Iṣbahānī, was a Shāfiʿī jurist and the author of al-Masāʾil al-Majālisiyya (2) in jurisprudence.
He heard hadith from Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī, Buhlūl ibn Isḥāq, Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿAbsī, Yūsuf al-Qāḍī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Marwazī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṭayālisī, and others of their circle.
Among those who narrated from him are: his son al-Khaṣīb, Munīr ibn Aḥmad al-Khallāl, the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Naḥḥās, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Naṣr al-Dimashqī, and several others.
He first assumed the judiciary of Damascus in 332 AH, then the judiciary of Egypt (3); later, sometime after 340 AH, he was re-appointed judge of Damascus by order of Caliph al-Muṭīʿ. He was again appointed judge of Egypt in 339 AH by Ibn Umm Shaybān, the judge of Baghdad, whereupon he travelled through the Sawād to the residence of al-Ikhshīd, even though he had previously refused to accept office on behalf of Ibn Umm—