Those who narrated from him include: Ismāʿīl ibn al-Samarkandī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī, and—taking theology from him—ʿAlī ibn ʿAqīl, the leading Ḥanbalī scholar.
He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 478 AH.
He was a man of asceticism, scrupulousness, and contentment. When he grew old he would pull beams from his own house to use for fuel, dressed only in untreated cotton ⦗1⦘, and he was an active propagator of Muʿtazilite doctrine; through him Ibn ʿAqīl veered off course.
He died, again, in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 478 AH ⦗2⦘, and he had a firm grasp of formal logic.
Yet refinement, research, and brilliance are of no benefit when their possessor plunges with them into Hell.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Hamadhānī said, “Abū ʿAlī was the ascetic of the Muʿtazila. In our time we knew no one whose conscientiousness and contentment matched his; he even abstained from the inheritance due to him from his father ⦗3⦘. He used to say: ‘I read to our teacher Abū al-Ḥusayn in the year 415 AH.’”

253 – Ibn al-Muṭṭalib, Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad *
The unparalleled man of letters, Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muṭṭalib al-Kirmānī, later al-Baghdādī, the poet; father of the minister, the Ṣāḥib Abū al-Maʿālī Hibat Allāh ibn al-Muṭṭalib.
He excelled in literature and historical narrative.