He heard in Zanjān from Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusayn al-Falākī and Abū ʿAlī ibn Bundār; in Isfahan from the ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym, to whom he read the three Muʿjams of al-Ṭabarānī; and in Baghdad from Abū Isḥāq al-Barmakī and al-Ṣūrī.
He did not devote himself to this discipline until late in life, for he had been born in 395 AH.
In Baghdad he studied jurisprudence with Shaykh Abū Isḥāq, staying with him until he became one of his senior disciples. He was among the scholars who practised what they knew, a man of scrupulous piety, humility, and heartfelt devotion (1).
Those who transmitted from him include Ismāʿīl ibn al-Samarkandī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Aḥmad al-Yūsufī, Shīrwīh al-Daylamī, and others.
He passed to the mercy of Allah in Baghdad on the eleventh of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 473 AH, at the age of seventy-eight.
282 – Jaʿbar ibn Sābiq al-Qushayrī
One of the Arab amīrs, he built the fortress of Jaʿbar (2) on the Euphrates, which was then called al-Dawsariyyah, because Dawsar, the servant of the lord of al-Ḥīrah al-Nuʿmān ibn al-Mundhir, had originally constructed it. When the Seljuq sultan Malikshāh came to Aleppo, he had this amīr Jaʿbar put to death after hearing that his two sons were waylaying travellers; he killed him in 479 AH (3).