ibn ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd al-Qurashī, originally from Herat.
He heard ḥadith from Abū ʿAlī Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad al-Raffāʾ; Abū Ḥāmid ibn Ḥasnawayh; Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khamīruwayh; Manṣūr ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būshanjī; and a group of others from whom he alone preserved transmission.
The ḥāfiẓ Abū Yaʿqūb al-Qarrāb (1) selected many fascicles from his collection.
Among those who narrated from him were: Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū Ismāʿīl ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-ʿUmayrī, and others.
He lived eighty-four years and died in Muḥarram 433 AH. He was counted among the dignitaries of men and the last remaining musnids of Herat.
369 – al-Naṣruwayhī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamdān ibn Muḥammad*
The venerable shaykh, the imam, the hadith master: Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamdān ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdān ibn Naṣruwayh al-Naṣruwayhī—with a ṣād, not a sīn (2)—of Nishapur.
He travelled, wrote extensively, and transmitted the Musnad of Isḥāq along with other works.
He related from: Abū ʿAmr ibn Nujayd, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Sarrāj, and Abū Muḥammad