as well as ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Rāzī, a group of scholars in Nishapur, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Shurayḥ the ascetic of Herat.

He pursued formal legal study under Abū Bakr al-Qaffāl, Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṣuʿlūkī, and Ibn Maḥmish al-Ziyādī.

He excelled in the Shāfiʿī school, began teaching while his own teachers were still alive, and the scholars of Nishapur studied jurisprudence with him; the issuing of fatwas and the circles of debate turned to him.

Among those who learned from him were Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī, Abū Isḥāq al-Jīlī, Masʿūd ibn Nāṣir al-Sijzī, Abū Ṣāliḥ the muʾadhdhin, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir al-Fārisī, and others.

He held dictation sessions for many years and authored works.

He was righteous, humble, poor yet dignified, chaste, content with little, and highly esteemed—may Allah have mercy on him.

He died in Nishapur in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 444 AH.

That same year there also passed away: the transmitter of the Musnad, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Mudhhib (1); Abū Ghānim Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Kurāʿī (2) al-Marwazī; the ḥāfiẓ Abū Naṣr ʿUbayd Allah ibn Saʿīd al-Sijzī (3); the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī al-Azajī; the judge of Mosul, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Simnānī (4), a scholar of kalām; ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-Sawwāq, the Qurʾān reciter; and the master of the readers, Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī.