173 – al-Jurjānī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
Imām Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Jurjānī, the market inspector, was a transmitter of the Ṣaḥīḥ from al-Firabrī. He also heard ḥadiths from ʿUmar ibn Bujayr and a group of other teachers. Al-Ḥākim and many others related from him. He died in Ṣafar of the year 366 AH as well. As for the judge ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Jurjānī, the man of letters, he will be mentioned later (1).
174 – al-Sīrāfī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Marzubān
The erudite scholar and foremost grammarian, Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Marzubān al-Sīrāfī, author of numerous works and known as the chief grammarian of Baghdad. He transmitted ḥadiths from Abū Bakr ibn Durayd, Ibn Ziyād al-Naysābūrī, and Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Azhar.
(*) Tarikh Jurjan, pp. 276–277; Mizan al-Iʻtidal, 3/112; Lisan al-Mizan, 4/194–195.
(1) His biography will appear in volume 17, entry 10.
(**) Tabaqat al-nahawiyyin wa-al-lughawiyyin, pp. 129–130; Al-Imtaʻ wa-al-Muʼanasa, 1/108–133; Al-Fihrist, p. 93; Tarikh Baghdad, 7/341–342; Al-Ansab, 7/218–219; Nuzhat al-albaʼ, pp. 307–308; Al-Muntazam, 7/95; Muʻjam al-udabaʼ, 8/145–232; Muʻjam al-buldan, 3/295; Inbaʼ al-ruwat, 1/313–315; Al-Lubab, 2/165; Wafayat al-aʻyan, 2/78–79; Al-ʻIbar, 2/347; Al-Wafi bi-l-wafayat, 2/74; Mirʼat al-jinnan, 2/390–391; Al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya, 11/294; Al-Bulgha fi Tarikh Aʼimmat al-Lugha, pp. 61–62; Tabaqat al-Muʻtazila (Ibn al-Murtada), p. 131; Ghaya al-nihaya, 1/218; Al-Falaka wa-l-maflukun, pp. 95–96; Lisan al-Mizan, 2/218; Al-Nujum al-zahira, 4/133–134; Bughyat al-wuʻat, 1/507–509; Al-Jawahir al-mudiyya, 2/66–67; Shadharāt al-dhahab, 3/65–66; Rawdat al-janat, pp. 218–219; Hadiyat al-ʻarifin, 1/271.