and four hundred (454 AH), when he was in his nineties. Another report states that he actually died in 455 AH. He was regarded as the leading hadith scholar in Sarkhas.

In that same year (1) there died: Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Thaqafī (2); Ibrāhīm ibn Manṣūr, the grandson of Baḥruwayh (3); Abū Yaʿlā al-Ṣābūnī (4); the author of al-ʿUnwān, Abū Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl ibn Khalf (5) in Egypt; the Seljuq sultan Ṭughril Beg (6); Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdūn al-Sulamī (7); and Abū al-Khaṭṭāb al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ḥazm al-Raḥḥāl, a relative of the jurist Abū Muḥammad, who passed away while still a young man.

73 – Ibn Bundār ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-ʿIjlī *
The imām, exemplar, Shaykh al-Islām, Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of the hadith scholar Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Bundār al-ʿIjlī, originally from Rayy, born in Mecca, and a master of Qurʾān recitation.
He learned the Qurʾān from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Mujāhidī, a pupil of Ibn Mujāhid, and he recited according to the reading of Ibn—