Then his brother Bahāʾ al-Dawlah assumed power, while their other brother Ṣamṣām al-Dawlah was the one who had ruled Iraq for three years after their father ʿAḍud al-Dawlah. Sharaf al-Dawlah moved against him; Ṣamṣām was forced to yield and surrendered himself to his brother, who treacherously imprisoned him in Shīrāz until he died.
– Ibn Yāsīn, Abū al-Qāsim Bishr ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bāhilī (repeated 237)
The eminent judge, Abū al-Qāsim Bishr ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yāsīn ibn al-Naḍr ibn Sulaymān (1) ibn Salmān ibn Rabīʿah al-Bāhilī, from Nishapur, a Ḥanafī, and the chief judge of his city.
Al-Ḥākim said: “He was handsome, of fine character, cheerful-hearted, constantly engaged in the remembrance of Allah and in prayer night and day, and strongly devoted to the righteous and the Sufis.”
In Nishapur he heard hadith from Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Khuzaymah, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj and others; he also studied under Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Daghūlī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Isḥāq ibn Muzayn and their peers in Sarakhs, as well as Abū al-Qāsim ibn Ḥamm the jurist, Abū Bakr ibn Tarkhān and many of their contemporaries.
He died in Ramaḍān 378 AH, at the age of eighty-two.
The just amir Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm attended his funeral and appointed Abū al-Qāsim the judge, the son of the Chief Judge of the Two Sanctuaries, to lead the funeral prayer over him.
I (the author) say: Al-Ḥākim, al-ʿAbduwī, Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarūdhī and others transmitted from him.
A fascicle of his narrations with elevated chains has reached me, and Abū Bakr Muḥammad