Ibn Khafif, Muhammad ibn Khafif ibn Asfakshad, Abu `Abd Allah al-Shirazi al-Dibbi al-Shafi`i al-Sufi (death.371 A.H.

He took kalam from al-Ash`ari , fiqh from Ibn Surayj, and tasawwuf from Ruwaym, al-Jariri, and Abu al-`Abbas ibn `Ata'. Al-Dhahabi said of him: "He is at the same time one of the most knowledgeable shaykhs in the external sciences (`ulum al-zahir).