351 – al-Qazwīnī, Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā b. Aḥmad *
The shaykh, leading imām, ḥāfiẓ (hadith master) and trustworthy authority: Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā b. Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd Allāh al-Qazwīnī, who settled in Damascus in the quarter of Bayt Lahyā (1).
In his home city he heard ḥadith from Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb al-Qazwīnī; in Rayy from Muḥammad b. Ayyūb b. al-Ḍurays and ʿAlī b. al-Junayd al-Mālikī; in Baghdad from Idrīs b. Jaʿfar and his peers; in Egypt from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī; and in Basra from al-Sājī and others.
Those who transmitted from him include Tammām al-Rāzī, Abū Muḥammad al-Naḥḥās al-Miṣrī, Munīr b. Aḥmad, and others.
He died sometime before 350 AH.
Tammām declared him reliable.
Yahyā b. Aḥmad al-Judhāmī informed us, saying: Muḥammad b. ʿImād informed us. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad the jurist likewise informed us, saying: Abū Ṣādiq b. Ṣabāḥ informed us. They said:
Ibn Rifāʿah informed us; ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan al-Shāfiʿī informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar informed us; Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā al-Qazwīnī informed us; Buhlūl b. Isḥāq narrated to us; Saʿīd b. Manṣūr narrated to us; Mughīrah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—from Abū al-Zinād—from al-Aʿraj—from Abū Hurayrah—reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Fasting is a shield.” (2)