Al-Ḥākim said: “He was among the clear-minded men and the devoted worshipers.”
Al-Khaṭīb added: “He was reliable; Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah narrated to us from him.”
I (the author) say: Others who transmitted from him include al-Ḥākim, ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Jūrī, and Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Maghribī.
He taught hadith in Baghdad.
Al-Ḥākim dated his death to Shaʿbān 397 AH.
His two brothers, Yaḥyā and Muḥammad, will be mentioned shortly.

368 – Ibn Ḥamshādh, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Naysābūrī *
The erudite ascetic, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamshādh al-Naysābūrī, the Shāfiʿī.
He heard hadith from Abū Ḥāmid ibn Bilāl and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Qaṭṭān, then journeyed and heard from Abū Jaʿfar al-Razzāz and Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār.
He studied jurisprudence until he excelled, mastered dialectics, kalām, and rational inquiry, learned grammar under Abū ʿUmar al-Zāhid, traveled to Yemen, and his companions graduated under his tutelage.
A worshiper, God-fearing, preacher whose supplications were answered, he authored many works and kept away from the people of worldly pursuits.
Al-Ḥākim lavished praise upon him, saying: “More than three hundred of his authored books are known, and on more than one occasion we witnessed that his prayers were answered.”