one ḥāfiẓ and half a ḥāfiẓ; the ḥāfiẓ, he explained, was Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Manjuwayh, while the half-ḥāfiẓ was al-Jārūdī. (1)
Yaḥyā b. Manda said: “My uncle ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Manda copied from him his book al-Sunan, which he arranged on the model of Sunan Abī Dāwūd, and he used to praise him abundantly.
I also heard from him,” he continued, “the three Musnads compiled by al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān.” (2)
I say: Ibn Manjuwayh produced a mustakhraj on the two Ṣaḥīḥs, as well as works on the Jāmiʿ of Abū ʿĪsā and on Sunan Abī Dāwūd. (3)
He died on Thursday, the fifth of Muḥarram in the year 428 AH, at the age of eighty-one.
In that same year there also passed away: the Ḥanafī authority Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Qudūrī, (4) Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ṣaqr b. al-Namaṭ, Abū Ṭāhir ʿAbd al-Ghaffār b. Muḥammad the tutor, Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān b. Muḥammad b. Dust (5) the grain-merchant, the exemplar Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Ḥinnāʾī (6) in Damascus, Abū ʿAbd Allāh b. Bākūyah (7) al-Shīrāzī the Sufi, the leading poet of his age Mihyār al-Daylamī (8), Ṣilah b. al-Muʾammal al-Baghdādī in Egypt, and the erudite scholar.