and al-Ḥākim, as well as Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Mustaghfirī and others.

Al-Mustaghfirī said, “To the best of my knowledge, he is today the foremost ḥadīth memoriser in Transoxiana.” (1)

Al-Ḥākim remarked, “Abū Naṣr al-Kalābādhī the scribe is one of the ḥuffāẓ. His grasp and understanding are excellent, and he is well-versed in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī. He transcribed ḥadīths in Transoxiana, Khurasan, and Iraq. I also found our teacher Abū’l-Ḥasan al-Dāraqutnī satisfied with his comprehension and scholarship. He is precise and firmly reliable.”

He passed away in Jumada al-Ākhirah of the year 398 AH.

Al-Ḥākim added, “In Transoxiana he left no one comparable to him.” (2)

I say: He authored a work on the transmitters of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī. (3)

Al-Salafī stated, “Khalid ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, the merchant of Isfahan, read to us the book al-Irshād fī Maʿrifat Rijāl al-Bukhārī; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Siyāwush al-Kāzarūnī transmitted it to us from its author, Abū Naṣr.” (4)

Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī informed us; Jaʿfar al-Mālikī informed us; al-Salafī reported