عماد الدين النيهي

عماد الدين النيهي

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Imad al-Din Abu Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ibn Abdallah al-Nayhi the Shafi'i — nisba to Nih, a small town between Sijistan and Isfarayin; Ibn al-Sam'ani in the Ansab calls him a virtuous working imam, memorizer of the gold [i.e. the choicest texts], eager for hadith and its spread, devout, of fine character; he read fiqh under al-Baghawi and many scholars graduated on him — Ibn al-Sam'ani attended his dictation sessions at Marw; shaykh of the Shafi'is of those lands with a book on the madhhab from which Ibn al-Salah culled rarities; d. Sha'ban 548 ¹.