Al-Qawwās said, “I heard al-Khuldī say, ‘The delight of spiritual transaction can never coexist with the delight of the self.’ (1)

Al-Khuldī also said, ‘I possess one hundred and thirty volumes from the compilations of the brethren.’ (2)

I (the author) say: He died in Ramadan of the year 348 AH, at the age of ninety-five. I have in my possession several sessions from his Amālī.

334 – al-Sarafandī, Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq ibn Abī al-Dardāʾ *

The ḥadith scholar, Imām Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq ibn Abī al-Dardāʾ al-Anṣārī, al-Sarafandī, the Syrian.

Sarafanda is a fortress on the coastal frontier that has fallen into ruin. (3)

He heard ḥadith from Bakkār ibn Qutaybah, Abū Umayya al-Ṭarasūsī, Muʿāwiya ibn Ṣāliḥ, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, al-Rabīʿ ibn Muḥammad al-Lādhīqī, and others.

Those who transmitted from him include ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAjāʾiz, Shihāb ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣūrī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Jumayʿ, and others.

This is all that has reached me concerning his condition. ﵀

ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim informed us; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad informed us in person; ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam informed us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalāb informed us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad informed us