Those who reported from him include al-Bayhaqi, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Muzakkī, Manṣūr ibn Ḥīd, ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Muḥammad al-Shīrawiyy, and others. Under his tutelage the scholars of Naysābūr acquired their training in Arabic. He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of 430 AH at the age of eighty-one, and he had recited and transmitted the Sunan of al-Dāraqūṭnī.
359 – al-Ḥīrī, Ismāʿīl ibn Aḥmad al-Naysābūrī *
The distinguished scholar and Qurʾanic exegete, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ismāʿīl ibn Aḥmad al-Naysābūrī, known as al-Ḥīrī—the blind, ascetic savant, and one of the leading authorities. He authored works on the Qurʾān and its variant readings, on hadith, on exhortation, and on benefiting people at large.
He received hadith from Zāhir al-Sarakhsī, Abū Muḥammad al-Mukhladī, the grandson of Ibn Khuzaymah, and Abū al-Haytham al-Kushmīhanī.
Those who narrated from him include al-Khaṭīb and Masʿūd ibn Nāṣir.
Al-Khaṭīb said (1): “He visited us—what an excellent shaykh he was! He possessed a renowned tafsīr. I read Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī to him in three sittings: two appointments over two nights,