in 422 AH, at the age of sixty (1).
His brother was one of the poets already mentioned; he was appointed to the chancery drafting bureau for Jalal al-Dawlah and was afterward sent out as his envoy. That brother was Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī (2).
He died in Wāsiṭ in 437 AH, and their father had passed away in 391 AH (3).
288 – Ibn Shubānah, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadhānī: the shaykh, the eminent upright authority, and the principal transmitter of Hamadhan. His full name is Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bundār ibn Shubānah al-Hamadhānī.
The second section of his collected narrations has reached us.
He transmitted from Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUbayd; al-Faḍl ibn al-Faḍl al-Kindī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Burzah; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Maḥmuwayh al-Nasawī; Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī; and others.
The ḥadīth master Shīrawayh said: “Among those who narrated from him are ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Ghaffār, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir the devotee, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Rūdhbārī, Saʿd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Qaṣrī, Aḥmad ibn Ṭāhir al-Qūmisānī, and Abū Ghālib Aḥmad …”