al-Barqānī say, “The whole realm of Herat was under his command, such was his stature and his fatherly authority.” (1)

ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAlawī informed us; ʿAlī ibn Rūzbih informed us; Abu’l-Waqt al-Sijzī informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿĀlī informed us; the chief Muḥammad ibn Abī al-ʿAbbās al-ʿUṣmī dictated to us; Abu Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Qurashī narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Mihrān narrated to us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAmr al-Kūfī narrated to us; Sufyān—from al-Ajlaḥ—from Ibn Burayd—from his father—who said:

“The Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—dispatched ʿAlī at the head of a detachment and sent with him a man to record the reports.” (2)

This narration is exceedingly singular.

Al-Ḥākim said: Ibn Abī Dhuhl was martyred in Ṣafar of the year 378 AH. A companion of his told me that he entered the bathhouse; when he came out he was clothed in a shirt that had been smeared with something, whereupon his body swelled and he died—may Allah have mercy on him.

273 – al-Wakīl Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn ʿĪsā al-Jurjānī *

The unique hadith scholar, Abū’l-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn ʿĪsā al-Jurjānī, the wakīl in the service of the judges.

He transmitted from: ʿImrān ibn Mūsā al-Sakhtiyānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Wazzān, Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ al-Saʿdī, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd