there died: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yazdah al-Milanjī, the Qur’an reciter, and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Aswārī.
396 – al-Khallāl, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and consummate authority, the hadith scholar of Iraq: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Ṭālib Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī, known as al-Khallāl, the brother of al-Ḥusayn.
He was born in 352 AH.
He heard hadith from Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī, Abū Bakr al-Warrāq, Abū Saʿīd al-Sīrāfī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayyūwayh, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAskarī, Abū al-Faḍl al-Zuhrī, Abū Bakr ibn Shādhān, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dārquṭnī, and many others; I do not think he ever travelled abroad in pursuit of hadith.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Khaṭīb, Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Sarrāj, al-Mubārak ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣayrafī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣandulī, Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn, al-Muʿammar ibn Abī ʿImāmah, Jaʿfar ibn al-Muḥassin al-Salamasī, Abū Saʿd Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣayrafī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Dīnawarī, and others.
Al-Khaṭīb said (1): “We wrote hadith from him. He was trustworthy, knowledgeable, and keen-sighted. He compiled a Musnad arranged upon the two Ṣaḥīḥs, produced numerous thematic chapters and biographical entries, and died in Jumada al-Ūlā, 439 AH.”