Among those who passed away in this very year Seventy were: Ibn al-Naqqūr, already mentioned (1); the shaykh Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥamdūh al-Baghdādī, the Qurʾān-reciter and the last person to transmit from Ibn Samʿūn; the preacher of Damascus Abū Naṣr al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Ṭalab (2), companion of Ibn Jumayʿ; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh, son of the ḥāfiẓ al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Khallāl (3); the noble Hanbalī shaykh Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd al-Khāliq b. Abī Mūsā al-Hāshimī (4), who died at the age of fifty-nine; the Iraqi grammarian Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Hibat Allāh b. al-Warrāq, the blind scholar; the ḥadith expert of Isfahān, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Manda al-ʿAbdī (5); and others besides them.

213 – al-Sukkari, Abū Saʿd ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-Naysābūrī
The imam, ḥadith scholar, master memoriser, and teacher of the community—Abū Saʿd ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-Naysābūrī, known as al-Sukkari, the jurist.

He studied under: his grandfather ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar al-Sukkari, the judge Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī, Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad b. Mūsā al-Ṣayrafī, Muḥammad b. Abī Isḥāq al-Muzakkī, and several others.

He had a sound grasp of this discipline and was discriminating in choosing his teachers.

Those who narrated from him include: Yūsuf b. Ayyūb al-Hamaḏānī the ascetic, Ismāʿīl b. Aḥmad the muʾadhdhin, and others.