269 – al-Tirāzī, the eminent shaykh and chief musnid of Khurāsān: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Baghdādī, known as al-Tirāzī, a Hanbalī man of letters and one of the leading scholars of Nishapur.

He reported ḥadīth from: Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥasnawayh, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Muʾammal, Abū ʿAmr ibn Maṭar, and a number of others.

Those who narrated on his authority include: Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Ṣāʿid ibn Sayyār, Abū Saʿd ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ṣādiq, and several more.

He was the last person to transmit from al-Aṣamm through direct audition; after him Abū Nuʿaym (1), the ḥadīth master, continued to relate from al-Aṣamm, but only by ijāza (authorised permission).

He died on the twenty-fourth of Dhū al-Ḥijja, 422 AH.

His father passed away soon after 380 AH. The father had transmitted from Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, and among those who reported from the father were Abū Saʿd al-Kanjrawadhī and others.

That same year, a few months before the death of Abū al-Ḥasan al-Tirāzī, the shaykh and Qur’an exegete Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Naysābūrī (2) also died; he likewise had transmitted from al-Aṣamm.

Those who narrated from Abū Naṣr include: Abū Ismāʿīl ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī and ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī.

He lived for eighty-five years, and in that same year the caliph al-Qādir bi ’Llāh, Aḥmad ibn