, b. Mihrān, an Umayyad client, a Baghdadi, and the compiler of numerous amali sessions (1).
Birth: Shawwāl, 339 AH.
He—and his brother Abū al-Ḥusayn (2) b. Bishrān, who was deemed reliable—heard a great deal of hadith from many scholars.
He narrated from: Abū Bakr al-Najjād; Abū Sahl b. Ziyād; Ḥamzah al-Dihqān; Aḥmad b. al-Faḍl b. Khuzaymah; ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Fākihī al-Makkī; Daʿlaj al-Sijzī; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī; ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Jumaḥī; Abū Bakr al-Ājurī; ʿAbd al-Khāliq b. Abī Rūbā; ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Qāniʿ; Aḥmad b. Nīkhāb (3) al-Ṭayyibī; Abū ʿAlī b. al-Ṣawwāf; al-Ḥasan b. al-Khaḍir al-Usyūṭī; Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Kindī; and al-Qaṭīʿī.
Narrators from him include: al-Khaṭīb, al-Kattānī, Abū al-Qāsim b. Abī al-ʿAlāʾ, Abū al-Faḍl b. Khayrūn, Muḥammad b. Sulaymān b. Lūbā, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Faqīrah, Abū Ghālib Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Muḥammad b. al-Munḏir b. Ṭaybān, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan al-Muzarrar, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. al-Khal, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Khayyāṭ, Abū al-Khaṭṭāb b. al-Jarrāḥ, Abū Saʿd al-Asadī, Abū Ghālib b. al-Bāqillānī, ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Fatḥān al-Shahruzūrī, and many others.
Al-Khaṭīb said: “We wrote hadith from him; he was trustworthy, firmly reliable, and righteous.”
He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 430 AH, having stipulated that he be buried next to Shaykh Abū Ṭālib.