and the third session I read from mid-morning until nightfall, and then on through to the break of dawn.

I add: He died in 430 AH at the age of sixty-nine.

360 – Ibn Rāmish, Manṣūr ibn Rāmish al-Naysābūrī *
The eminent mawla and governor of Naysābūr, Abū ʿAbd Allah Manṣūr ibn Rāmish ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Zayd al-Naysābūrī.

He taught and transmitted ḥadith in Khurāsān, Baghdad, the Ḥaram, and Damascus, receiving from Abū al-Faḍl ʿUbayd Allah al-Zuhrī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Taymulī, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Fāmī, al-Dāraqutnī, Abū Muḥammad al-Makhladī, and others.

Among those who narrated from him were al-Khaṭīb, al-Kattānī, al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, Abū al-Faḍl ibn al-Furāt, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Muṭarriz.

He was a highly esteemed, reliable authority, a prolific transmitter of reports. He once dispatched an entire load of written auditions and possessed a number of unique narrations.

ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Ismāʿīl says in al-Siyāq: “His kunya was Abū Naṣr; he was the head (al-raʾīs), a military sallār and veteran fighter—truly a man among men and a strategist among strategists. He held the leadership of Naysābūr under the rule of Maḥmūd, administering the city with justice and equity. Later he performed the ḥajj and resided in Mecca for two years. On his return he governed the city once more, but, finding himself unable to uphold justice, he asked to be relieved of office and devoted himself to worship. He remained trustworthy.”

He passed away in Rajab 427 AH.