He too was regarded as reliable. Among those who died that year were: the conqueror of India, Sultan Mahmud (1) ibn Subuktikin; the Tirmidhī transmitter Ismāʿīl (2) ibn Yanal al-Marwazī—he had heard the Jāmiʿ from his patron al-Maḥbūbī and lived to an advanced age; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Iṣbahānī, known as al-Jammāl (3); the distinguished man of letters Abū ʿUmar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Darrāj al-Qaṣṭallī al-Andalusī, the leading poet of his era (4); and Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaʿqūb al-Bajjānī (5), transmitter of al-Wāḍiḥa from Saʿīd ibn Faḥlūn, who died at the age of ninety-five.

219 – Ibn Khuwasta, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad
The shaykh, the imām, the centenarian, Qurʾān reciter, and principal ḥadīth authority of al-Andalus, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Khuwasta, originally Persian, later Baghdādī, and a grammarian.

He was born in Rajab 320 AH, and he used to recount the day Ibn Mujāhid passed away.

He received ḥadīth from Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaffār, Abū Bakr al-Najjād, Abū Bakr ibn Dāsa al-Baṣrī, Abū ʿUmar al-Zāhid, and Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād al-Naqqāsh the Qurʾān-reciter, being one of the latter’s students in the readings.

He also learned the Qurʾān from ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī Hāshim.

Later he travelled to al-Andalus, where the people rejoiced at the loftiness of his chains of transmission and eagerly took knowledge from him.