الزعفراني

الزعفراني

771 عیسوی · 154 ھ – 874 عیسوی · رمضان 260 ھ

A Baghdad imam — jurist, hadith scholar and master of eloquence — counted among the transmitters of al-Shafi'i's 'old' (Iraqi) corpus; al-Mawardi called him 'the most flourishing of the qadim transmitters'. He was the reader in al-Shafi'i's circle attended by Ahmad and Abu Thawr: 'when al-Shafi'i came to us none dared read to him but me, and I read him all the books save two he read to me.' He heard Ibn 'Uyayna, 'Ubayda b. Humayd and Yazid b. Harun; the Six-save-Muslim transmitted from him, and al-Nasa'i graded him thiqa. Baghdad's Darb al-Za'faran took its name from him and held the mosque where al-Shirazi taught. He died in Ramadan 260 ¹.