404 al-Ḥalabī — Abū al-Hasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq*
The Imām, the erudite scholar, jurist, and judge: Abū al-Hasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Ḥalabī, a Shāfiʿī who later resided in Egypt.
He received ḥadith from his grandfather Isḥāq; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ghaḍāʾirī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, the Imām’s nephew; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Nayrūz al-Anmāṭī; Muḥammad ibn Nūḥ al-Jundaysābūrī; Muḥammad ibn al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān al-Jīzī; Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād al-Naysābūrī; and a number of others.
Among those who transmitted from him were: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī ʿUthmān the ascetic; Rashāʾ ibn Naẓīf; al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAtīq al-Tinnīsī; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmar al-Baghdādī the oil-seller; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasnūn al-Narsī; Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-Miṣrī; and others.
Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī said: “He and our shaykh Abū Muslim were the last of Ibn Mujāhid’s companions to relate the book al-Sabʿah.”
Abū al-Hasan lived to a remarkable age, exceeding one hundred and ten according to what has reached me.
Another report states that he was born in 295 AH and died in 396 AH, making his lifespan one hundred and one years.
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad the judge informed us; Ṭāhir ibn Sahl informed us; Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-Azdī informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUbayd Allāh narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah narrated to us; and Jarīr narrated