Al-Azhari said, “He was an authoritative proof, solidly reliable.” I add: he passed away in Shawwal of the year 383 AH.
318 – al-Jūrī, Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm *
The shaykh, jurist, and hadith transmitter: Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Naysābūrī, a Ḥanafī, also known as al-Jūrī.
He heard from Abū Bakr ibn Khuzaymah, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Sufyān, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥanafī.
Narrators from him include al-Ḥākim, ʿUmar ibn Masrūr, Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarūdhī, and others.
He taught and issued legal rulings for many years and lived to a great age.
He died in Ramadan of 383 AH, at a little over ninety years old.
He is also reported to have transmitted from al-Sarrāj, Abū Nuʿaym ibn ʿAdī, and Ibn Shanabūdh.
319 – al-Fannākī, Abū al-Qāsim Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaʿqūb **
The shaykh: Abū al-Qāsim Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaʿqūb ibn al-Fannākī al-Rāzī, the narrator of the Musnad of the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Ruwayānī on his authority.
He also heard from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim.