the questions dealt with in the Mudawwanah, a volume entitled “Additions to the Mother-Texts and Rare Reports,” and a work on the life of his teacher al-Jubnayānī. He died in 440 AH (1). Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ makes mention of him.
422 – Khāmūsh, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī *
The imam, ḥadīth scholar, ḥāfiẓ, and preacher Abū Ḥātim Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī—his father was a cloth-merchant—was nicknamed “Khāmūsh.”
He was known for his scholarly travels, his wide-ranging knowledge, and his fame.
He heard ḥadīth from Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mandah, from Fātik ibn ʿAbd Allāh, and from a group of scholars in Isfahān; from Abū Aḥmad al-Faradī and his circle in Baghdad; from Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ḥasan at Ṣarṣar (2); from ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Rāzī in Rayy; and from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān and others in Naysābūr.
He was the leading shaykh of Rayy in his day.
Shaykh al-Islām Abū Ismāʿīl and many others narrated from him.
A brief notice appears about him in the History of Yaḥyā ibn Mandah, which states that scholars from many different lands studied under him.
Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī ʿAmr, who said: Abū Bakr ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Tuwiyy (3) in Hamadhān informed us, saying, “Abū Ḥātim related to us …”