He studied under Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ṣalt al-Ahwāzī—who was the last of his teachers—as well as Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥammāmī and Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥurfī.

Those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Samarqandī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī, Ibn Nāṣir, Aḥmad b. Hibat-Allāh b. al-Furḍī, and ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Yūsufī.

Al-Samʿānī said: “Trustworthy, upright, and truthful.”

He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 484 AH.

262 – al-Ḥākimī, Abū al-Fath Naṣr b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad *

The jurist Naṣr b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Manṣūr b. Shādhawayh, Abū al-Fath al-Tūsī, known as al-Ḥākimī, was one of the renowned scholars.

He narrated the Sunan through Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī, who in turn related it from Ibn Dāsah.

They brought him to Nīshāpūr, where the people heard the book from him.

Among those who reported from him were Abū al-Asʿad b. al-Qushayrī, Ṣakhr b. ʿUbayd al-Ṭabarānī, and a number of others; he lived to an advanced age.

263 – Muʿallā b. Ḥaydara, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kutāmī **

The eminent emir, Ḥiṣn al-Dawlah, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kutāmī (1).

He seized control of the dominion of Damascus after the commander of the armies, Badr (2), withdrew from it; he oppressed, confiscated property, and dealt harshly with the people, claiming that his authority had come from al-Mustanṣir, and the populace was thrown into hardship,