In that same year there died: the judge Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī (1); Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Wannī (2); the ḥadith scholar ʿAlī ibn Baqāʾ al-Warrāq; Abū al-Qāsim ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khaffāf (3); the “Chief of the Chiefs,” the vizier ʿAlī ibn al-Muslima (4); and Abū al-Fatḥ Manṣūr ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Tānī (5).
30 – al-Jawharī, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad*
The shaykh, the imam, the ḥadith scholar, a man of proven veracity, the musnid of the horizons: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, originally from Shīrāz and later from Baghdad, known as al-Jawharī and al-Muqannaʿī.
He said, “I was born in Shaʿbān of the year 363 AH.”
He heard ḥadith from: Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī—in the year 368 AH—Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAskarī; ʿAlī ibn Luʾluʾ al-Warrāq; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Kaysān; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʿĀqūlī; Abū (6) ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAṭashī; ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī ʿAzzah; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-ʿAṣab; Abū Ḥafṣ al-Zayyāt; al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-Daqqāq; and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ḥasan—