al-Ḥākim, who objected to my assessment, held him to be sound and said, “He was my shaykh.”(1)

He died with seven days remaining in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 368 AH, at the age of ninety-five.

144 – al-Qaṣṣāb, Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad*
The Imām, scholar, and ḥadīth master: Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Karajī, the campaigning mujāhid.
He was called “al-Qaṣṣāb” (“the Butcher”) because of the many enemies he slew on his military expeditions.
His father had been a disciple of ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb al-Ṭāʾī.

He related ḥadīth from his father; from Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Akhram; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṭayālisī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Salm; Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Fāris; al-Ḥasan ibn Yazīd al-Daqqāq; and their peers.

He authored the books “Thawāb al-Aʿmāl” (Rewards for Deeds), “ʿIqāb al-Aʿmāl” (Punishments for Deeds), “al-Sunnah,” “Taʾdīb al-Aʾimmah” (Disciplining the Imams), and other works.

Among those who transmitted from him were his two sons ʿAlī and Abū al-Faraj ʿAmmār; Abū al-Manṣūr Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Burūjirdī; and a number of others.

He lived until about 360 AH.

He is the one who said: “Every attribute with which Allah has described Himself, or with which His Messenger has described Him, …”