whom I ever heard relate hadith; my father sent me to her, and she was an ascetic.
I add: Muḥammad ibn Ḥamd al-Kibritī and Ismāʿīl al-Ḥammāmī, the long-lived one, also narrated from her, and he was the last of her pupils. She lived on until the year 466 AH (1).

143 – Ṣurbaʿr ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī *
The consummate poet and leading man of letters of his age: Abū Manṣūr ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Faḍl al-Baghdādī, the scribe. His sobriquet was Ṣurbaʿr. He combined eloquence, power, subtlety, and sweetness, and his mastery of literature was unrivalled.

He heard hadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān (2) and Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥammāmī. Among those who transmitted from him were Abū Saʿd al-Zawzanī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, and Fāṭimah bint al-Khabrī (3).

Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām the scribe said: Niẓām al-Mulk used to say to him, “You are Ṣurddar, not Ṣurbaʿr” (4).

Ibn al-Najjār remarked: He eulogised Caliph al-Qāʾim and his vizier Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Muslima; among the later poets none possessed a more refined nature than he, while still retaining vigor and eloquence.