from ʿAlī ibn Ghālib of Bayt Lahyā. ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī narrated to us; Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm narrated to us. He said: Al-Ḥasan was asked—as I was sitting beside him—about a man who says, “You son of a mule.” He replied, “Was that an explicit accusation? Then no ḥadd penalty applies to him.”

200 – Al-Qaffāl al-Shāshī Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl *
The imam, master scholar, jurist, legal theorist, linguist, and leading authority of Khurasan: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl al-Shāshī al-Shāfiʿī, better known as al-Qaffāl al-Kabīr—the foremost scholar of his age in Transoxiana and the author of numerous works.

Al-Ḥākim said: “He was the most knowledgeable person beyond the river in legal theory, and the one who travelled the farthest in pursuit of ḥadith.”

He heard ḥadith from: Abū Bakr ibn Khuzaymah; Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī; ʿAbd Allah ibn Isḥāq al-Madāʾinī; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bāghandī; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī; Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī; and scholars of their tier.

Shaykh Abū Isḥāq records in al-Ṭabaqāt (1): “He died in 336 AH.”