This ʿAlī, however, was devoid of any distinction.

Al-Barqānī said, “He did not know how to narrate properly. I asked him to read something of his ḥadith to me; he picked up his book and did not know what to say. I exclaimed, ‘Glory be to God! Was it not Yūsuf al-Qāḍī who narrated to you?’ He replied, ‘Glory be to God! Yūsuf al-Qāḍī narrated to you.’ Then he added, ‘Nevertheless, the session he attended together with his brother was sound.’ (1)”

Al-Jawharī said, “I heard from him in 373 AH.”

I say: al-Khaṭīb did not record the year of his death.

As for his elder brother, Imām Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn al-Naḥwī (1) (repeated 93), he was a trustworthy scholar. He studied under Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī and Bishr ibn Mūsā, and those who reported from him include Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān and the ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym. He died in 358 AH.

239 – Muḥammad ibn al-Muʾammal, Abū Bakr ibn Ḥaywayh ibn al-Muʾammal al-Karajī *

He is the shaykh, the musnid, the long-lived Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ḥaywayh ibn al-Muʾammal ibn Abī Rawḍah al-Karajī, the grammarian, a resident of Hamadhān, and—if his claim is sound—the leading musnid of his era, for he narrated from a large tier of transmitters.