; and he was mistaken only in the terminology. Thereafter Ibn Ḥazm launched into denouncing al-Simnānī, claiming that he allowed for the possibility that the Messenger could apostatize after conveying the message—We seek refuge in Allah from such misguidance.
Abū Jaʿfar died in Mosul in 444 AH, at the age of eighty-three. Among those who studied the rational sciences with him were the judge Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī and others.
And his son:
442 – Aḥmad ibn Abī Jaʿfar, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Simnānī *
He was the imām and judge Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Abī Jaʿfar. He was born in Simnān in Shaʿbān of the year 384 AH. He travelled and, in Baghdad, heard ḥadīth from al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Nūbakhtī, Ismāʿīl ibn Hishām al-Ṣarṣarī, and a number of others. He was appointed judge of Bāb al-Tāq and lived to a great age. Al-Khaṭīb said, “I wrote ḥadīth from him; he was truthful.” I say: he will be mentioned in the next tier.
443 – al-Kisāʾī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Muḥammad **
The ḥadīth scholar, imām, and itinerant teacher, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadānī, known as al-Kisāʾī, the Sufi, who resided in Egypt. He heard (ḥadīth) from Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdān al-Shīrāzī in Ahwāz, Naṣr ibn Aḥmad al-Marjī in Mosul, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī in Damascus, and Abū al-Fath Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad.