He was covered with an excessive infestation of lice, yet he never killed them, saying, “They do not trouble me.” He died in 418 AH, and his grave in Hamadhān is still visited.
254 – al-Nasāʾī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zuhayr ibn Akhṭal*
The senior Shāfiʿī scholar and erudite authority, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zuhayr ibn Akhṭal al-Nasāʾī, the preacher of Nasā.
He heard ḥadith from al-Aṣamm, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ḥasnawī, Ibn ʿAbdus al-Ṭarāʾifī, Ḥassān ibn Muḥammad, and Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād al-Qaṭṭān, and he lived to an advanced age.
Al-Bayhaqī, Abū Ṣāliḥ the muʾadhdhin, and a number of others narrated from him, and jurists made the journey to study under him.
He passed away on the night of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr in 418 AH.
255 – al-Rabaʿī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Faraj**
The eminent grammarian, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Faraj al-Rabaʿī al-Baghdādī, author of several works.
(*) al-Ibar, vol. 3, p. 129; al-Wafi bil-Wafayat, vol. 3, p. 78; Tabaqat al-Subki, vol. 4, p. 149; Tabaqat Ibn Hidayat Allah, p. 72; Shudhurat al-Dhahab, vol. 3, p. 210; the nisba “al-Nasai” denotes someone from Nasa, a city in Khurasan.
(* *) Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 12, pp. 17–18; Nuzhat al-Alba, pp. 341–342; al-Muntazam, vol. 8, p. 46; Muʿjam al-Udaba, vol. 14, pp. 78–85; Inbaʾ al-Ruwat, vol. 2, p. 297; al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh, vol. 9, p. 392; Wafayat al-Aʿyan, vol. 3, p. 336; al-Ibar, vol. 3, p. 138; Talkhis Ibn Maktum, p. 146; ʿUyun al-Tawarikh, Obituaries for 420 AH; al-Wafi bil-Wafayat (ms.), vol. 12, p. 134; al-Falaka wa-l-Maflukun, pp. 113–114; Tabaqat Ibn Qadi Shuhba, pp. 224–225; al-Nujum al-Zahira, vol. 4, p. 271; Bughyat al-Wuʿat, vol. 2, pp. 181–182; Isharat al-Taʿyin, pp. 34–35; Shudhurat al-Dhahab, vol. 3, p. 216; Rawdat al-Jannat, p. 843; Idah al-Maknun, vol. 1, p. 172; Hadiyyat al-ʿArifin, vol. 1, p. 686.