—better known as Ibn Khurashīdh-Qūlah al-Karmānī, an Isfahan native and a merchant by profession.

He studied under Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād al-Naysābūrī, the jurist-judge al-Maḥāmilī, Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqda (1), Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Rabīʿ al-Anmāṭī, and a number of others.
He stood unrivalled in his day.

Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Badīʿ, Zufar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Manda together with his brother ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Ḥasanābādhī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Simsār, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṭayyān, and Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Shakruwayh—the latter group being men of Isfahan.

Al-Maṣqalī relates: “I heard Ibn Khurashīdh-Qūlah say, ‘I was born in the year 307 AH, and I entered Baghdad in 321 AH.’” (2)

The author says: I am aware of no fault in him, and we have received from his transmission several fascicles.

He passed away in Muḥarram of the year 400 AH.

As for the name Khurashīdh, both its first and second consonants carry a fatḥa—that is how I found it pointed—whereas students commonly pronounce it with a ḍamma and a heavy articulation.

In that same year there also died the ḥadith master Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbaydah al-Umawī al-Ṭulayṭulī, the companion of Abū Isḥāq ibn Shinthir the ḥāfiẓ—the two were known as “the Companions” (3)—as well as the ḥāfiẓ Abū Masʿūd Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Dimashqī (4).