al-Mukhtār, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Bughrāj, Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Raḥbī, Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣayrafī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Dīnawarī, and many others besides them.

Al-Khaṭīb (1) said: “We wrote down narrations from him. He was one of the ascetics and among Allah’s righteous servants. He taught the Qur’an and transmitted ḥadith, and he would not leave his house except for the prayer—may Allah have mercy on him.

He told me, ‘I was born in 360 AH.’ He passed away in Shaʿbān 442 AH, and all of Baghdad was closed on the day he was buried; I have never seen a larger crowd at any funeral.

Abū Naṣr Hibat Allāh ibn al-Mujallī said: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥah ibn al-Munaqqī narrated to me: “When my father was at the point of death he instructed me what to do and said, ‘Go to al-Qazwīnī and say to him: I saw the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—in a dream, and he said to me:

“Convey my greetings to al-Qazwīnī and say to him: the proof is that you were present at the Station this year.”

When my father died, I went to al-Qazwīnī. As soon as he saw me he asked, ‘Has your father died?’

I said, ‘Yes.’

He replied, ‘All praise is due to Allah. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, has spoken the truth, and so did your father.’

He bound me by oath not to relate this incident during his lifetime.

Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī narrated to us, Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī narrated to us, al-Silafī said:

I asked Shujāʿ al-Dhuhlī about Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qazwīnī, and he answered, ‘He was the hallmark of the ascetics and the righteous, the imam of the pious and scrupulous. He possessed manifest, well-known miracles that people would recount. He continued teaching and narrating until he died.’

Abū Ṣāliḥ the muʾadhdhin said in his Muʿjam: ‘Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qazwīnī the Shāfiʿī…’