“ʿAli al-Ahwāzī is a liar in both Qur’anic readings and hadith reports (1).”

I remark: He only meant that al-Ahwāzī tampered with chains of transmission and claimed to have met authorities; as for inventing actual letters of the recitation or the texts themselves—God forbid, never! I would not attribute that to him. In the science of Qur’anic readings he was an ocean; the reciters received his compilations and his transmission of the discipline with full acceptance, and they did not censure him as sharply as the hadith experts did. In the same way they held a good opinion of al-Naqqāsh (2), al-Sāmirī (3), and a group of others who managed to pass themselves off upon them.

Abū ʿAlī—may Allah pardon him—died on 4 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 446 AH.

12 – al-Azajī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad
The shaykh, the imām, the hadith scholar, the instructor: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Shakkar al-Baghdādī, known as al-Azajī.

He heard extensively from Ibn Kaysān, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAskarī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Luʾluʾ, Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥurfī (4), ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Khiraqī, and Muḥammad.