He died in Ṣafar of the year 468 (1) AH. Zabah, as we have noted, was recorded by Abū Nuʿaym ibn al-Ḥaddād.
176 – al-Wakhshī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad *
The shaykh, imām, ḥāfiẓ, muḥaddith, and ascetic Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Balkhī, known as al-Wakhshī.
Birth: 385 AH, according to al-Samʿānī.
He heard ḥadith from Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī, the judge Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās al-Miṣrī, Tammām ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī, ʿUqayl ibn ʿAbdān, the judge Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī, and many others.
He travelled far and wide across the regions.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Sarakhsī, ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī, and others.
Al-Khaṭīb said, “I transcribed from him in Baghdad and Isfahān (2).”
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said, “He was a reliable and virtuous ḥāfiẓ, excellent in recitation; he travelled….”