I add: al-Dāraqutnī judged him weak, whereas Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī considered him reliable.
In that same year—meaning 404 AH—Shuʿayb ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Minhāl (1) died in Egypt, as did Abū Ṭālib ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zuhrī (2). In Ramadan of that year, Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Hārūn also passed away.
371 – Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Hamadhānī
The Imām, ḥadith scholar, unrivaled leader, and Shaykh of Hamadhān; Abū Manṣūr al-Hamadhānī, the Sufi, a righteous servant.
He transmitted hadith from the ḥāfiẓ Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad, Jibrīl al-ʿAdl, the scholars of Hamadhān, Sahl ibn Aḥmad al-Dībājī, Ibn al-Muẓaffar, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Qaṭīʿī, the scholars of Baghdad, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, the scholars of Isfahan, Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Dakhīl al-Makkī, and their contemporaries.
Shīrawayh states in his History: Those who narrated from him include Abū Ṭālib al-ʿAlawī, Abū al-Faḍl al-Qūmisānī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir, Yaḥyā and Thābit—the two sons of Ḥusayn ibn Shurāʿah—Naṣr ibn Muḥammad the muʾadhdhin, and ʿAbdūs ibn ʿAbd Allāh.
He adds: “He was truthful and reliable, humble and compassionate. He prayed by night and by day, performed the pilgrimage more than twenty times, endowed estates and shops for the poor, and spent untold sums in every avenue of charity. He died in Ramadan of the year 431 AH, at a time when the Oghuz Turks had raided Hamadhān, and Muḥammad ibn…"