Al-Dhahabī described him by saying: “The righteous, virtuous servant, the scholar, the Qurʾān reader, the long-lived one, the remnant of the righteous predecessors.” He was born in the year 631 AH, and he held the position of shaykh of al-Ḍiyāʾiyyah. He died in the year 721 AH. (1)

c. Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿĪsā ibn al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh Jaʿfar ibn al-Muʿtaṣim ibn al-Rashīd, the noble sharīf, Abū al-Karam al-Mutawakkilī, al-Baghdādī, known as Ibn Shufnīn. Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī described him by saying: “He was a venerable shaykh, noble, of good conduct, excellent in virtue, lofty in chain of transmission.” Shufnīn was a nickname for ʿUbayd Allāh. He was born in the year 549 AH and died in the year 640 AH. (2)

d. Abū al-Waqt ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿĪsā ibn Shuʿayb ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq al-Sijzī (attributed to Sijistān, as mentioned previously in the biography of Abū Dāwūd), then al-Harawī al-Mālīnī. Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī described him by saying: “The shaykh, the imam, the ascetic, the righteous Sufi, the Shaykh of Islam, the musnid of the horizons.” He was born in the year 458 AH. He narrated ḥadīth in Khurāsān, Iṣfahān, Kirmān, Hamadhān, and Baghdad. Students flocked to him in great numbers, his ḥadīth became widely known, his fame spread far, and the loftiness of his chain of transmission culminated in him. The narration of Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Mutawakkilī from him—

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(1) Al-Dhahabī, in “Muʿjam al-Shuyūkh,” biography no. 962, and Ibn Ḥajar, in “al-Durar al-Kāminah,” 4/426–427.
(2) Al-Dhahabī, in “Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ,” 23/84–85, and “Tārīkh al-Islām,” the sixty-fourth class, biography no. 686.