Shaykh al-Mufid (1), the leading authority of the Imami Shiʿah. He kept close to him, became proficient, produced a Qur’an commentary (2), and dictated two volumes of hadiths and rare reports, most of them from his teacher al-Mufid.

He also transmitted from: Hilal al-Haffar, al-Husayn ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Fahham, al-Sharif al-Murtada, Ahmad ibn ʿAbdun, and a number of others.

Narrations from him were carried by his own son, Abu ʿAli.

The hadith masters, however, turned away from him because of his innovation. His books were burned several times in the courtyard of the Jamiʿ al-Qasr, and he went into hiding once his disparagement of the early generations became known. He had resided in al-Karkh—the quarter of the Rāfiḍites—then moved to Kufah and settled at the shrine there, giving legal instruction.

He died in Muharram of the year 460 AH (3).

He was reckoned among the sharp-witted, not among the righteous.

Ibn al-Najjar mentions him in his History.

He left numerous writings, among them: the very large Tahdhib al-Ahkam, Mukhtalif al-Akhbar, al-Mufsih fi’l-Imamah, and other works. I have also seen a treatise of his cataloguing their books and their authors (4).

156 – Ibn Ḥamdan, Husayn ibn Hasan ibn al-Husayn al-Taghlibi *

The great emir, Nasir al-Dawlah, Husayn (5), son of the emir Nasir al-Dawlah and the sword of the state