Among those who narrated from him were al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Nasafī, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Kāsanī, the ḥāfiẓ al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Samarkandī, the preacher Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Nūḥī, and others besides. In his day he was the leading ḥadith authority in Transoxiana.
He was born a little after 350 AH, and he died in Nasaf in 432 AH at the age of eighty.
In that same year there also died: Ḥammād ibn ʿAmmār al-Qurṭubī, at the age of one hundred; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥḥān (1); Abū Ḥassān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Muzakkī (2); Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Mazdah, the Qurʾān-reciter; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, a grandson of Abū Muslim al-Jallāb; Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid ibn Muḥammad (3) in Nishapur, according to the sounder opinion; and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Bukayr (4), the reciter.
373 – al-Hinnāʾī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm
The imām, exemplar, ḥadith master, Qurʾān-reciter, and Shaykh al-Islām—Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥusayn al-Dimashqī, al-Hinnāʾī, the ascetic.
He transmitted ḥadith from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, and Abū