he had listened to a great many ḥadiths, yet he was not among those whose transmission can be relied upon, for he confused portions of what he had heard.
Then al-Silafī added, “He was an object of criticism.” (1)
Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn said: “He passed away on the night before Friday, the 19th of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir in the year 444 AH. I myself heard everything in his possession, and my nephew received from him the Kitāb al-Zuhd of Aḥmad.”
We mentioned earlier in the biography of Ibn Ghaylān (2) that al-Rashīdī asked Abū ʿAlī for an authorization to transmit the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad, but he refused to grant the ijāzah unless he was paid twenty dinars—may Allah pardon him. As for Ibn Nuqṭah’s remark, “And even if he were one who inserts his own name, that would be of no consequence,” the insertion of his name was merely a matter of transferring what was in his personal copy into the master manuscript, not a case of fabrication by falsely claiming audition. There is some disagreement over the issue, yet the man is not to be considered suspect. (3)

435 – al-ʿUmari, Abū al-Fath Nāṣir ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad *
The imām, jurist, and leading authority of the Shāfiʿīs: Abū al-Fath Nāṣir ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī, al-ʿUmari, al-Marwazī, the Shāfiʿī.
He heard ḥadith from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarakhsi and others in Marw, and from Abū Muḥammad al-Makhladī,