al-Naysābūrī, originally from Basra, known as al-Karābīsī.
He heard from Abū Labīd al-Sarakhsī, Abū Bakr Ibn Khuzaymah, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, and others. He was the son-in-law of the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥajjājī. Those who transmitted from him include al-Ḥākim, Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarūdhī, and a group besides them. He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 378 AH, at the age of eighty-one.
304 – Naqqāsh al-Fiḍḍah, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Sulamī *
The erudite scholar, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Sulamī al-Baghdādī, al-Jawharī, al-Ashʿarī—nicknamed “the silver engraver” and a direct disciple of Abū al-Hasan al-Ashʿarī.
He heard from Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bāghandī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, al-Ḥasan ibn Maḥmī, and others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, ʿUbayd Allāh al-Azharī, ʿAlī ibn al-Muḥassin al-Tanūkhī, and others.
Al-Azharī deemed him trustworthy and said: “He was one of the theologians upon the school of Abū al-Hasan, and Ibn Shādhān learned kalām from him.”
He passed away in Muḥarram, 379 AH, at eighty-five years of age.
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