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- ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī al-Qāsim, Basran (d. 684/1285).
95 citations, of al-Ḥāwī al-ṣaghīr (The Lesser Comprehensive) and
al-kabīr (The Greater). For biographical information, see Ibn Rajab,
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad: K. al-Dhayl ʿalā ṭabaqāt al-ḥanābila, ed.
by Muḥammad Ḥāmid al-Fiqī, Cairo 1372/1952–53, reprint Beirut
n. d., vol. 2, pp. 313–315.
- Ibn Munajjā, Asʿad (Muḥammad?) (d. Damascus, 606/1209).
86 citations, of al-Khulāṣa (The Summary) and Sharḥ al-Hidāya (The
Commentary on al-Hidāya). For biographical information, see Ibn
Rajab, al-Dhayl, vol. 2, pp. 49–51.
- Ibn al-Sarī al-Dujaylī, al-Ḥasan (Ḥusayn?) b. Yūsuf, Baghdadī
(d. 732/1331).
81 citations, of al-Wajīz (The Concise). For biographical information,
see Ibn Rajab, al-Dhayl, vol. 2, pp. 417–418.
- ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Maqdisī, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī
(d. Damascus, 820/1413).
67 citations, usually of Naẓm al-mufradāt (The Versification of the
Peculiar), also as shaykhunā (our Master). For biographical informa-
tion, see al-ʿUlaymī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (d. Jerusalem, 927/1520–1521?):
al-Manhaj al-aḥmad fī tarājim aṣḥāb al-imām Aḥmad (The Most
Praiseworthy Way Concerning the Biographies of the Followers
of the Leader Aḥmad), ed. by Riyāḍ ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Murād, Muḥyī
al-Dīn Najīb, Ibrāhīm Ṣāliḥ, Ḥasan Ismāʿīl Muruwwa, Yāsīn Maḥmūd
al-Khaṭīb and Walīd Yūsuf al-ʿĀnī, Beirut 1997, vol. 5, p. 203. Also
adequate, to my knowledge, is the edition al-Manhaj al-aḥmad by
Muṣṭafā ʿAbd al-Qādir Aḥmad ʿAṭā, Beirut 1420/1999. Two earlier,
two-volume editions by Muḥammad Muḥyī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ḥāmid,
Cairo 1383/1963 and Beyrut (ʿĀlam al-Kutub) 1403/1983, present only
the first half of al-ʿUlaymī’s work.
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