That same year also saw the passing of: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ḥurfī (1); Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Qūmisānī (2); Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Shahrayār; al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥasnūwayh the school-teacher; and Ismāʿīl b. Rajāʾ of ʿAsqalān.
232 – al-Razzāz, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad
The shaykh and musnid, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Dāwūd al-Baghdādī, known as al-Razzāz.
He was born in 335 AH.
Among those from whom he heard were: ʿUthmān b. Aḥmad b. al-Sammāk; Abū Bakr al-Najjād; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad b. ʿAlī al-Ṭastī; Abū Sahl b. Ziyād; Abū ʿUmar Ghulām Thaʿlab; Maymūn b. Isḥāq; Jaʿfar al-Khuldī; ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. al-Zubayr al-Qurashī; and Daʿlj al-Sijzī.
He studied the Ḥamza recitation with Abū Bakr b. Miqsam, who had taken it from Idrīs al-Ḥaddād.
Those who in turn recited the Qurʾān to him include ʿAbd al-Sayyid b. ʿAttāb (3) and others.
His transmitters comprise Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī, Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Ṭuraythīthī, and a number of scholars from Baghdad, Khurāsān, and elsewhere.