al-Qāsim al-Sutūrī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Ṣiqillī, and Abū Ḥafṣ al-ʿAṭṭār.

He was a leading authority in the Mālikī school—well-versed in belles-lettres, deeply devout, pious, and constant in worship.

He passed away in 432 AH, after having travelled to Egypt where he attended scholarly gatherings and transmitted ḥadīth.

344 – al-Ismāʿīlī, al-Sarī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Aḥmad

The muftī and chief scholar of Jurjān: Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Sarī, son of the eminent scholar Abū Saʿd Ismāʿīl, grandson of the leading authority of his era Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ismāʿīlī al-Jurjānī, a Shāfiʿī and man of letters.

He studied jurisprudence under his father, heard a large corpus from his grandfather—preserving some of the latter’s works as his exclusive transmission—and also learned from Ibn al-Ghitrīf, Ibn Shāhīn, and al-Dāraqutnī. A number of jurists completed their training under him.

He was the foremost scholar of that region, humble in demeanour and fond of scholars and righteous people. He lived seventy years and died in 430 AH.