He met with Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī. Gifted with polished eloquence and a commanding delivery, his ideas were striking, his diction vigorous, and his sermons enjoyed exceptional favour.

He was a man of virtue and integrity. It is related that he saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in his sleep; when he awoke, a glow was visible upon him that had never been noticed before. He lived another eighteen days, after which Allah took his soul. He reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had spat into his mouth, and for the remainder of those days he neither sought food nor drank anything.

He died in 374 AH at Mayyāfāriqīn.

It was said that he did not assume the pulpit of Aleppo until after the death of Sayf al-Dawlah ibn Ḥamdān, and that his age did not reach forty, but rather thirty-nine years—Allah knows best. That report, however, cannot stand, for he began compiling his sermons in 351 AH, and at that time he was already an accomplished preacher who had sat with al-Mutanabbī. It is therefore more plausible that he lived fifty years or even longer. His father, too, transmitted hadith.

230 – Abū al-Layth Naṣr ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Samarkandī *
The imam, jurist, hadith scholar, and ascetic—one of the Hanafis—author of Tanbīh al-Ghāfilīn and of a work entitled al-Fatāwā.