the two musalsal traditions, one of them being the musalsal of “first-hearers.” He recited them to me, and I fixed an appointment with him every day in the Mosque of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ until I set out. (1)
I say: This took place in the year 470 AH. The Qāḍī of the Mārastān heard from him in 476 AH, (2) after which he was forbidden to transmit hadith. He died in 482 AH at the age of ninety-one. Some said he passed away in Shawwāl.
ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Musallam al-Anṣārī reported: “He died on Wednesday evening, the 6th of Dhū al-Qaʿdah—may Allah, Exalted is He, have mercy on him.”
In that same year the following also died: the musnid of Isfahān, the judge Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Shakruwayh; (3) the musnid of Damascus, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd; the judge and head of Naysābūr, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid al-Ṣāʿidī; the mufti of Sarakhs, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Shujāʿī; the preacher of Isfahān, Abū al-Khayr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Jaʿfar al-Ṭabasī, author of Bustān al-ʿĀrifīn; (4) Abū al-Sanābil Hibat Allāh ibn Abī al-Ṣaḥbāʾ; (5) the judge of Baṣra, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī al-Shāfiʿī; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad al-Thaqafī; the hadith scholar ʿAlī ibn Abī Naṣr al-Manādīlī; Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Samkuwayh of Isfahān; and the musnid of Jūrjān, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān al-Khallālī.
Abū al-Fahm Tammām ibn Aḥmad al-Sulamī informed us, saying: The Imām, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh informed us