al-Mundhiri al-Nabulsi

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Al-Mundhiri, the Hanbali muhaddith of Nablus then Damascus; he travelled for hadith through the amsar — hearing Ibn al-Hasri at Mecca, al-Busiri, al-Artahi and the hafiz 'Abd al-Ghani in Egypt, al-Mubarak b. Kulayb and Ibn al-Jawzi at Baghdad, Abu'l-Makarim al-Labban at Isfahan, 'Abd al-Mun'im al-Farawi and al-Mu'ayyad al-Tusi in Khurasan, Abu Sa'd al-Saffar at Nishapur, and the hafiz 'Abd al-Qadir al-Ruhawi at Harran where he attached himself for a time. ¹

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'Umar b. al-Hajib called him "a righteous servant, a man of wonders, of manliness amid utter poverty"; al-Diya', al-Mundhiri, al-Birzali and the qadi Sulayman b. Hamza transmitted from him. ¹

Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi

The hafiz Abu Muhammad Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi al-Hanbali, traditionist of al-Jazira. He had been a slave of some people of Mosul, who freed him, and he came to love the discipline of hadith and heard a great deal. He was born in Jumada al-Akhira 536 in al-Ruha; he was then taken captive when Zengi conquered al-Ruha in 539, and the Harrani Banu Fahm bought him and set him free. He heard hadith in Isfahan, Hamadhan, Herat, Merv, Nishapur, Sijistan, Baghdad, Damascus and Egypt. He wrote and compiled, and his works include al-Arba'un al-mutabayina al-asanid wa-l-bilad, a feat that no one had achieved before him and that no traditionist can be expected to match after him, given the ruin of the lands. Abu Shama said he was a righteous man, awe-inspiring, ascetic, austere in his living, scrupulous and devout; Ibn Khalil said he was a retentive, firm hafiz, prolific in writing, with whom the transmission of hadith was closed. He died on Saturday, 2 Jumada al-Ula 612, at Harran.

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Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi