عبد الغافر الفارسي

عبد الغافر الفارسي

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The hafiz and littérateur Abu al-Hasan Abd al-Ghafir ibn Ismail al-Farisi — author of the Tarikh Nishapur, Majma al-ghara'ib and al-Mufhim, a commentary on Muslim; imam in hadith, language, adab and balagha and a Shafi'i jurist; he transmitted from his maternal grandfather Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri's generation, kept Imam al-Haramayn's company four years learning khilaf and fiqh, travelled widely, then returned to Nishapur as its khatib, taking tafsir and usul from his uncles Abu Sa'id Abdallah and Abu Sa'id Abd al-Wahid, sons of al-Qushayri; d. at Nishapur in 529 at seventy-eight ¹.