and Sulayman al-Tabarani, and many others besides.

Those who narrated from him include: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Mustamli al-ʿAttar; Abu ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Wahhab; Abu al-Qasim ʿAbd al-Rahman—the two sons of the hadith master Ibn Manda; Abu al-Khayr Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rara; the judge Abu Mansur ibn Shakarwayh; Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Salim; Sulayman ibn Ibrahim al-Hafiz; Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Dhakwani; Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Qasim ibn al-Fadl al-Thaqafi (1); Abu Mutiʿ Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahid al-Sahhaf; and many others.

Among his writings is the Mustakhraj on Sahih al-Bukhari, in which a large number of the book’s traditions are transmitted with unusually elevated chains—so elevated that it is as though he had personally met al-Bukhari.

He was a veritable champion of hadith: intelligent, alert, precise, and extraordinarily prolific. Anyone who studies his works will immediately recognize the extent of his mastery of memorization.

He also authored a small volume entitled “The Tashahhud: Its Lines of Transmission and Wordings,” and a Qur’an commentary in seven volumes.

His narrations reach us in the Thaqafiyyat collection and elsewhere.

He died with six nights remaining in Ramadan of the year 410 AH, at the age of eighty-seven.

In that same year there also died: the leading transmitter and mufti of Nishapur, Abu Tahir Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmish (2) al-Ziyadi; the leading transmitter of Iraq, Abu ʿUmar ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Mahdi (3) al-Farisi; and the leading transmitter of Herat, the judge Abu Mansur Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn—