He recited the Qur’an in Iraq before Zayd b. Abī Bilāl, Abū al-Ḥusayn b. Būyān, Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh, Abū ʿĪsā Bakkār, and Ibn Miqsam; and in Damascus before Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. al-Naḍr al-Akhram.
Among those who transmitted from him were al-Ḥākim, Ibn Masrūr, Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarūdhī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAliyka, and Abū Saʿd Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm, the Qur’an-reciter.
Those who studied the Qur’an with him included Mahdī b. Ṭarārah and a number of others.
Al-Ḥākim said: “He was the imam of his age in the variant readings, the most devout of all the reciters we ever saw, and a man whose prayers were answered. I selected five parts of ḥadīth under him, and in Bukhara I read to him his own book, al-Shāmil, on the readings.”
He died in Shawwāl 381 AH. Al-ʿĀmirī the philosopher died along with him (1).
ʿUmar b. Aḥmad al-Zāhid told me, on the authority of a reliable person who saw Ibn Mihrān in a dream the night he was buried, that he said to him, “Master, what has Allah done with you?” He replied, “Allah placed Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀmirī beside me and said, ‘This man is your ransom from the Fire.’”
295 – Ḥusaynaka al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Tamīmī
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, illustrious scholar, and exemplar, Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b.