Narrated from him were: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Zubaydī and Abū al-Walīd ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faradī.
Abū al-Walīd said, “I wrote down ḥadith from him after he had lost his sight, and he passed away in the year 376 AH.”⦗1⦘
I add: during his lifetime he possessed the soundest chains of transmission in al-Andalus.
271 – Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī, al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghaffār
The pre-eminent grammarian, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Fārisī al-Fasawī, famed author of many works.
He related a fascicle from the ḥadith of Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh, which he had heard from ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Maʿdān; he alone transmitted it.
Among those who received from him were ʿUbayd Allāh al-Azhari, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī, and a number of others.
He arrived in Baghdad as a young man and studied under al-Zajjāj, Mabrimān⦗2⦘, and Abū Bakr