Abd al-Ghafir ibn Ismail ibn Abd al-Ghafir ibn Muhammad al-Farsi (Arabic: عبد الغافر بن اسماعيل بن عبد الغافر بن محمد الفارسي) was a renowned Persian Sunni muhaddith, historian and grammarian of the highest rank.
[5][4] He was born within the year 451/1058 and at the age of five, he was able to ponder the Qur'an and might rehash the statement of creed in his local dialect (Persian).
[3] He at that point cleared out Nishapur and continued to Khwarazm, where he proceeded to meet and study under the foremost famous masters of that nation, and opened a private course of informational of students.
He voyage from there to Ghazni, and after that to India, instructing the Hadiths and clarifying his grandfather's work, the Lataif al-Iskharat (substle Indications).
On his return to Nishapur he directed as a minister, and, amid a number of a long time, he gave lessons each Monday evening within the Akil mosque; he at that point composed his various works, of which rule are the Muslim, in which he clarifies the obscure focuses of Sahih Muslim and does an abridgement of Al-Hakim's History of Nishapur, which work he wrapped up towards the end of 518 AH; in which he explains the uncommon expressions happening within the hadiths; he composed other than numerous other instructive works.