and Abū al-Qāsim al-Nasīb, Abū al-Hasan ʿAlī ibn Qubays al-Mālikī, Abū al-Hasan Ibn Saʿīd, and others.
Ibn ʿAsākir said: He was a front-rank authority in the sciences of geometry and astronomy. (1)
al-Kattānī said: He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 453 AH, when he was approaching eighty years of age. He was buried in the house that he had endowed for the Sufis, the upper floor of which he further dedicated to the congregational mosque. He placed most of his estate in waqf. He used to say that he had been born in Ramadan of the year 374 AH. (2)
He heard the Muwaṭṭaʾ and Ibn Khuraym’s fascicle from al-Kilābī. (3)
I say: His grave in the khānqāh is visited.
32 – al-Jīlī, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʿAbbās *
The erudite scholar Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Jīlī, a Shāfiʿī, was one of the most learned and sharp-witted men of Gurgān.
He narrated from Abū Ṭāhir ibn Maḥmish and Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī.
ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī said in his History: “No one remained in Nishapur who could rival him or even come close to him.”
All teaching and the issuing of legal rulings devolved to him, and he died in Rajab of the year 451 AH.