with students, good-natured, charitable, humble, and compassionate toward the poor. He was known as “the Father of Widows.”

Abū Sad al-Samānī said, “I saw that the people of Isfahan were unanimous in praising and commending Abū Amr.”

He was born in 388 AH and died in 475 AH(1).

7—Abū Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Yawah al-Madīnī:

The hadith master Ibn Hajar said in Tabsīr al-Muntabih, 4/1501: “Yawah—with the first letter and the wāw bearing an a-vowel, and the wāw ungeminated—is al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Ahmad ibn Mūsā ibn Yawah al-Lunbānī, the transmitter of the works of Ibn Abī al-Dunyā.”

Al-Dhahabī mentioned him in Siyar Alām al-Nubalā, 15/312, among those who narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Abdī, whose biography follows. He also mentioned him at 18/440 among the teachers of Ibn Mandah.

His name was corrupted in al-Siyar, 15/312, to “Uraywah” instead of “Yawah.”

His attribution appears in Tabsīr al-Muntabih, 4/1501, as “al-Lubnānī,” with the letter bā followed by nūn, instead of “al-Lunbānī,” with nūn followed by bā. The latter is correct, as vocalized by al-Samānī in al-Ansāb, 5/192. It is an attribution to a large district of Isfahan. Here, “al-Madīnī” is likewise an attribution to Isfahan, as stated in al-Samānī’s al-Ansāb.