He was pre-eminent in jurisprudence and in speculative theology, constantly dictating on both subjects and teaching them (1).

Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Nadīm said: “Al-Juʿal was also known as al-Kāghadī, and his teacher was Abū al-Qāsim ibn Sahlawayh. Leadership of his school in his age devolved upon him … and he went on to say: He studied under Abū al-Ḥasan al-Karkhī, and he wrote the book Refutation of Ibn al-Rāwandī’s Argument, in which he proves that a corporeal entity cannot possibly be originated out of non-matter; the book Theology, affirming that God has ever existed alone until He created the universe; the book Faith; the book Profession of Faith, along with other compositions.”

Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī states in The Classes of the Jurists: “He was the head of the Muʿtazilite school. He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 369 AH, and the master grammarian Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī led the funeral prayer over him.”

I (the author) say: He was nearly eighty years old. Others say he lived only sixty-one years.

159 – Ibn Ukht Walīd ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī *

The erudite scholar and judge, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Rāshid ibn Shuʿayb al-Baghdādī al-Ẓāhirī, the nephew of Walīd.

He transmitted ḥadith from Ibn Qutaybah al-ʿAsqalānī and others.

Among those who narrated from him are ʿAlī ibn Munīr, Ibn Naẓīf al-Farrāʾ, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Abī al-Dhikr, and others.