He was killed in Bākharz—one of the districts of Nīshāpūr—and his blood was claimed (1) in Dhū al-Qaʿdah (2), 467 AH. He was counted among the leading writers of official prose. Ibn Khallikān records him (3).
175 – al-Zabahī, ʿAlī ibn Abī Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī *
The ḥadith master and scholar Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan (4) ibn Zakariyyā al-Jurjānī, known as al-Zabahī.
Zabah—spelled with a zāʾ with fatḥah, followed by a bāʾ, then an undotted ḥāʾ—is a locality in the region of Jurjān.
Birth: sometime after 390 AH.
He heard hadith from ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾaddib; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Munīrī; the judge Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī; Abū Saʿīd al-Ṣayrafī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bunānī al-Ḥurḍī; the ḥadith master Ḥamzah al-Sahmī; and their peers.
Narrated from him: Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ the muʾadhdhin, Ṣāʿid ibn Sayyār, and a group of others.
He authored Tārīkh Jurjān, later settled in Herat, and was the maternal uncle of the ḥadith master ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Jurjānī. He lived seventy-six years.