Al-Khaṭīb also said, “He died in Jumada al-Ula of the year 394 AH.”
I add: He was probably a kinsman of Abū Isḥāq ibn Khurrashīdh Qawlah.
In that same year passed away: Abū Muʿādh Shāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Harawī; Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Sulamī; Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Mālīnī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ḍayfūn al-Qurṭubī—he had met Ibn al-Aʿrābī—and Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḥarbī, the certifier.
415 – al-Khatn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Istirābādhī*
The Imām, the erudite scholar, shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Istirābādhī, later al-Jurjānī, a Shāfiʿī, widely known as al-Khatn. He was the son-in-law of Imām Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī.
He was born in 311 AH.
He was a leading authority in the madhhab, a man of standing, pre-eminent in Arabic letters, Qur’an recitation, and Qur’anic semantics—keen-witted, skilled in debate, and of great distinction.
He received hadith from Abū Nuʿaym ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAdī and his contemporaries in Jurjān, and from ʿAbd