Together with his father, he listened to Abū ʿĪsā al-Laythī, from whom he heard the Muwattaʾ and the Tafsīr of Ibn Nāfiʿ; he also took ḥadith from the judge Ibn al-Salīm, from Ibn al-Qutiyya, and from al-Zubaydī.
He was an intimate companion of al-Muʾayyad Billāh Hishām.
Ibn Khazraj remarks: “He was a man of purity, chastity, and reliability, and his narrations are numerous.”
He passed away in Ṣafar, 431 AH, at the age of eighty (1).
I say: Those who transmitted from him include Muḥammad ibn Shurayḥ the Qurʾān-reciter, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Khawlānī, his son Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, and others.
334 – al-Dizbarī, Abū Manṣūr Nushthakīn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Turkī *
Commander of the Armies, the Victorious, Sword of the Caliphate, Support of the State: Abū Manṣūr Nushthakīn (2) ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Turkī.
He was purchased in Damascus in 400 AH by the commander Tizbar the Daylamite, who noticed in him exceptional valor and daring. His reputation spread, so he presented him to al-Ḥākim.
Others said, rather, that it was al-Ḥākim who dispatched for him in the year—