He died in the city of Tyre in 449 AH.

62 – Ibn Abī Shams, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Naysābūrī
The shaykh, imām, jurist and leading authority; shaykh of the Qurʾān-reciters: Abū Saʿd Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā ibn Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Naysābūrī, al-Shāmātī(1), the expert in Qurʾānic recitation.

He was known as Ibn Abī Shams and is the author of that collection of Forty ḥadiths.

He transmitted ḥadith from: Abū Muḥammad al-Mukhalladī, Abū Ṭāhir ibn Khuzaymah, Abū Bakr al-Jawzqī, Abū Nuʿaym ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥasan, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Ḥabīb the exegete, and the judge Abū Manṣūr al-Azdī, whom he met in Herat.

He also heard the book “al-Ghāyah fī al-Qirāʾāt” from its author, Abū Bakr ibn Mihrān(2).

Those who narrated from him include: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid the judge, Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir, Abū al-Muẓaffar ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn al-Qushayrī, and a group of others.

ʿAbd al-Ghāfir says in “al-Siyāq”: “He was a virtuous, reliable shaykh, an authority on the modes of recitation, competent in managing affairs. The senior scholars chose him to act as deputy head in Naysābūr for a period because of his capability and his merit in mediating between disputants. He convened a dictation circle and dictated for years. He died in Shaʿbān 454 AH, at roughly eighty years of age—may Allah have mercy on him.”