al-Hasan al-ʿAlawī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Muzakkī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, Abū Bakr ibn Fūrak, Abū Nuʿaym Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbdūs, al-Sulamī, Ibn Bākūyah, and a number of others.

He pursued jurisprudence under Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṭūsī, the master Abū Isḥāq al-Isfarāyīnī, and Ibn Fūrak.

He rose to prominence in both uṣūl and furūʿ, kept the company of the gnostic Abū ʿAlī al-Daqqāq, married his daughter, and from her he was blessed with distinguished children.

The judge Ibn Khallikān said: “Abū al-Qāsim was a luminary in jurisprudence, Qur’an exegesis, hadith, uṣūl, literature, poetry, and calligraphy.”

He authored al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr (1), one of the finest Qur’an commentaries, and the Risālah on the masters of the Sufi path. He performed the pilgrimage with Imām Abū Muḥammad al-Juwaynī and the ḥadith scholar Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī.

The three of them heard ḥadith in Baghdad and the Ḥijāz (2).

I say: They received narrations from Hilāl al-Ḥaffār, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān, and their peers.

He (3) said: Abū al-Ḥasan al-Bākharzī (4) mentioned him in Dumyat al-Qaṣr and said (5): “Were a rock to be struck with the whip (6) of his admonition, it would melt, and if Iblīs were tied (7) in his gathering, he would repent.”

I add: Among those who transmitted from him were his sons—ʿAbd Allāh, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, and Abū Naṣr ʿAbd