teen and four hundred (416 AH).
Those who narrated from him include: the two Ṣāḥibs (1), Abū ʿUmar Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, Ḥātim b. Muḥammad, Abū ʿUmar Ibn Sumayq, and others (2).
299 – al-Nuʿaymī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan
The Imām, meticulous ḥadīth master, and man of letters Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Nuʿaym al-Nuʿaymī, a Basran Shāfiʿī who took up residence in Baghdad.
He studied under: Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-ʿAbbās al-Asfāṭī, Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd Allah al-Nahrdayrī (3), Muḥammad b. ʿAdī b. Zahr al-Minqarī, ʿAlī b. ʿUmar al-Ḥarbī al-Sukkarī, Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAskarī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥammād al-Kūfī the ḥadīth memoriser, ʿAbd Allah b. al-Yasaʿ al-Anṭākī, Muḥammad b. al-Muẓaffar, and al-Dāraqutnī.
Al-Khaṭīb said: “I wrote ḥadīth from him; he was a ḥāfiẓ, well-versed, a theologian, and a poet.”
Among those who transmitted from him was al-Barqānī in his compilation of the hadiths of al-Thawrī (4).