and from al-Zubayr b. Muḥammad al-Zubayrī, and ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Aḥmad, the judge and leading figure of the Muʿtazilah. He taught hadith in Rayy.
Ibn Mākūlā asked him about his birth, and he replied, “In the year 398 AH.”
Those who transmitted from him include: Malakdādh b. ʿAlī al-ʿAmrakī; ʿAlī b. Shāfiʿī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Rāzī; Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Zayd b. ʿAlī b. Manṣūr al-Shurūṭī; his brother Abū al-Maḥāsin Masʿūd; the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī; and his son Abū Zurʿah Ṭāhir.
I do not know when he died; I only know that he was still alive in 484 AH (1).
Among those who died in that same year were: Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Bakr al-Dhakwānī; al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Khalaf al-Kāshgharī; the ḥāfiẓ Ẓāfir b. Mufawwiz al-Shāṭibī; ʿAbd al-Malik b. Shaghabah al-Baṣrī; ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. Quraysh al-Naṣrī (2); the Qurʾān-reciter of Marw, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Kurkānjī (3); the chief judge Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Nāṣiḥī; and al-Muʿtaṣim Muḥammad b. Maʿn al-Ṣumādḥī (4) of al-Andalus.
272 – Ibn al-Baghdādī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan *
The imam, the preacher, the shaykh of Isfahan: Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad b. Abī Saʿd Aḥmad