139 – Ibn ʿAliyak, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan al-Naysābūrī

The shaykh, the Imām, the distinguished scholar: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAliyak al-Naysābūrī.

He came from a family of shaykhs and spent much of his life on the road. He resided for a time in Isfahan and taught there, as well as in Azerbaijan and Baghdad.

He transmitted ḥadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Khaffāf; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī; Abū Nuʿaym ʿAbd al-Malik al-Isfarāyīnī; Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥākim; Ḥamzah al-Muhallabī; and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Isḥāq al-Muzakkī.

Those who narrated from him include Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb—who said, “He was truthful” (1)—Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī, Abū Saʿd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī, Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Nātānī the Qurʾān-reciter (teacher of al-Sīlafī), and others.

Ibn Naqṭah said: Ibn Mākūlā and al-Muʾtaman al-Sājī heard from him.

Al-Nātānī reported: “He came to us in Tiflis and related to us from al-Khaffāf, and it was there that he died.”

Al-Samʿānī said: “I questioned Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad, and he replied, ‘I wrote from him; he possessed audition certificates, and his father had an extensive memorized collection, yet he held a poor opinion of him.’ I also heard Muḥammad ibn Abī Naṣr …”