the Black Stone one hundred and fifty times in a single night.
Ibn al-Muqriʾ passed away in the month of Shawwāl, 381 AH, at the age of ninety-six.
Those who also died that same year were: the Qur’an teacher of Nishapur Abū Bakr ibn Mihrān, compiler of al-Ghāyah; the transmitter of the Ṣaḥīḥ ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamowayh al-Sarakhsī; the Egyptian reciter Abū ʿAdī ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī, son of the Imām; the judge of ʿIrāq Abū Muḥammad ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Maʿrūf; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Dawsā al-ʿAllāf; and others.
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Ibn Maḥmowayh — Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn of Nishapur
The shaykh, reliable and truthful: Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Mūsā ibn Maḥmowayh al-Naysābūrī, the broker.
He heard from the Imām of the Imams Ibn Khuzaymah and from the ḥadith master Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah.
Those who narrated from him include al-Ḥākim, ʿUmar ibn Masrūr, and Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarūdhī.
He died in Ramaḍān 380 AH. -
Ibn Shīrawayh — Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh of Nishapur
The shaykh, long-lived: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Shīrawayh al-Naysābūrī, resident of Fārs in the city of Fasā.
He was trustworthy and truthful.