al-Farawi

الفراوي كمال الدين

c. 1049 CE · 441 AH – c. 1135 CE · 530 AH

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abi al-Abbas al-Sa'idi al-Farawi al-Nisaburi, known as Kamal al-Din, jurist and transmitter of hadith. He grew up among the Sufis. He was a learned jurist and hadith scholar, versatile, a debater and preacher, who carried food to the travellers who came to him and served them himself despite his age. He heard Sahih Muslim from Abd al-Ghafir al-Farisi and Sahih al-Bukhari from Sa'id ibn Abi Sa'id, and heard from al-Shirazi, al-Hafiz al-Bayhaqi, al-Qushayri and Imam al-Haramayn; he alone transmitted several of al-Bayhaqi's books, such as Dala'il al-nubuwwa and al-Asma' wa-l-sifat. It was said of him: 'al-Farawi is a thousand narrators' ¹.