Abū al-Faḍl al-Tamīmī, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Ḥārith b. Asad (341–410/952–1020), a Ḥanbalī scholar. He was born into a learned family in Baghdad: his grandfather, al-Ḥārith, had been a traditionist, and his father was one of the leading Ḥanbalīs in Baghdad (see al-Khaṭīb, 10/461; for further details regarding his genealogy, see al-Maqqarī, 3/121).

In Baghdad, he learnt the Islamic sciences from his father and from scholars of different tendencies, encompassing both extremist Ḥanbalīs on the one hand and Shiʿi scholars on the other. He …