Abu al-Fath al-Karukhi

أبو الفتح الكروخي

c. February 1154 CE · Dhu al-Hijja 548 AH

Abu al-Fath al-Karukhi Abd al-Malik ibn Abdallah of Herat — nisba to Karukh in Herat's environs; the righteous man who transmitted Tirmidhi's Jami', a devout trustworthy copyist who wrote out a copy of the Jami' and endowed it, living by copying; he taught hadith at Baghdad and Mecca, lived eighty-six years, and died in Dhu al-Hijja 548 ¹.