and the vizier Niẓām al-Mulk conveyed him to Nishapur, where he read the Ṣaḥīḥ at the Niẓāmiyyah. An uncountable multitude heard it from him. He left the city in 465 AH, and in that very year he died (1).
He was Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥafṣ; for that reason he was traced back to his forefather and called al-Ḥafṣī.
Another report says he died in 466 AH.
In that same year (2) also passed away: Abū Bakr Jumāhar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥajrī al-Ṭulayṭulī, the foremost Mālikī jurist; the ḥadith master Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAmr ibn Yūnus al-Iṣbahānī (3); ʿĀʾishah bint Ḥasan al-Warkāniyyah (4); the jurist ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣiqillī (5); ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī (6), the hadith scholar of Damascus; Abū Muslim ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Laythī (7); the traditionist Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʿAṭṭār (8); Abū al-Makārim Muḥammad ibn Sulṭān ibn Ḥayyūs al-Farāḍī; and Abū Bakr Yaʿqūb ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣayrafī.
119 – al-Ṣayrafī, Abū Bakr Yaʿqūb ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad
The eminent, trustworthy shaykh and leading musnid, Abū Bakr Yaʿqūb ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī.