On the outskirts of Basra, with the Tigris separating them, the Iraqi, the Sufi, ʿAlam al-Dīn, known as Ibn al-Ṣābūnī. The Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī described him, saying: "The noble scholar, the ascetic, the transmitter of ḥadīth." He was born in the year 556 AH, narrated extensively, and received an ijāzah in his youth from the senior scholars. He was shrewd, humble, trustworthy, and possessed virtue. He died in the year 640 AH.¹

D. Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, namely Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Aṣbahānī al-Jarwāānī (which is a large quarter in Iṣfahān, also called Karwāān). His grandfather Aḥmad was nicknamed Silfa, meaning thick-lipped, and its origin in Persian is Salabah, and they frequently mix the bāʾ with the fāʾ. The Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī described him, saying: "The imam, the distinguished scholar, the muḥaddith, the ḥāfiẓ, the muftī, the Shaykh of Islam, the honor of the long-lived." He was born in the year 474 or 475 AH, and set out on his scholarly travels when he was less than twenty years old. He studied jurisprudence under al-Kiyā al-Harrāsī,² Yūsuf ibn ʿAlī al-Zanjānī, and Abū Bakr al-Shāshī, and he learned belles-lettres from Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā—

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¹ Al-Dhahabī, *Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ*, 23/82–83.

² Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Marrākushī, in the fifth volume of *al-Dhayl wa al-Takmilah li-Kitābay al-Mawṣūl wa al-Ṣilah*, in his biography of Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿĪsā al-Khazrajī (no. 1151), who was a companion of al-Kiyā al-Harrāsī and possessed his works, said: He was asked about the meaning of al-Kiyā al-Harrās, and he replied: "The meaning of al-Kiyā is 'the scholar,' and his father had slaves who made harīsah (a type of porridge), so he was attributed to that." Ibn Khallikān said in *Wafayāt al-Aʿyān*, 3/289: "I do not know for what reason he was called al-Kiyā. In the Persian language, al-Kiyā means one of great status and precedence among people, and it is pronounced with a kasrah on the kāf and a fatḥah on the yāʾ, followed by an alif." We note: the name of al-Kiyā al-Harrāsī is ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭabarī, whose biography appears in *Wafayāt al-Aʿyān*, 3/286–289, and *Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ*, 19/350–352.