Al-Laftuwānī (1) said: “Abū al-Qāsim ibn ʿAliyak was superintendent of the religious endowments (awqāf) of the congregational mosque in Isfahan. When the accounts were audited, a deficit was recorded against him. Among the waqf’s holdings was a confectioner’s shop, and he had taken from its tenant a large quantity of sweets. People would laugh and say, ‘It seems the mosque itself has eaten the sweets!’

I asked Abū Saʿd ibn al-Baghdādī about him, and he replied, ‘He was a man of merit; I heard nothing but good concerning him. His father was a ḥadith scholar, and I never heard anyone impugn the authenticity of his auditions. A great many people copied from him the Musnad of Abū ʿAwānah—only he was an Ashʿarī.’

I (the author) add: He granted an authorization (ijāzah) to Ibn Nāṣir the ḥāfiẓ, and he died in Rajab of the year 468 AH.

140 – Abū al-Faraj al-Jarīrī ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī*
The venerable, trusted, and eminent shaykh: Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Bajalī, al-Jarīrī, al-Hamadhānī.

He was among the descendants of Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allah—may Allah be pleased with him.

He transmitted the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd from Abū Bakr ibn Lāl, and he also narrated from his own father, from Aḥmad ibn Turkān, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shīrāzī the ḥāfiẓ, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Abī al-Layth, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdān, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Ḥurfī (2), Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Yūsuf al-Ṣanʿānī, and Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAmshiliq al-Jaʿfarī.