Sadīd al-Mulk died sometime in the 470s AH; some place his death in 475 AH (1), while others say 479 AH.
284 – Ibn Shurayh, Muḥammad ibn Shurayh ibn Aḥmad al-Ruʿaynī
The imam, leading authority of the Qur’an reciters, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Shurayh ibn Aḥmad ibn Shurayh ibn Yūsuf al-Ruʿaynī, from Seville, author of the book al-Kāfī.
He was born in 392 AH (2), and this is the genealogy that has been definitively established. Ibn Bashkuwāl, however, inserted another “Muḥammad” between his father and Aḥmad (3). Ibn Shurayh also wrote a work entitled al-Tadhkīr (4).
He received ḥadīth from ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAmr al-Qayjṭālī (5). Makkī granted him an authorization, and he studied under him. He performed the pilgrimage, during which he heard Abū Dharr’s recension of the Ṣaḥīḥ and other material.
He learned the canonical readings from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Qanṭarī, who resided in the sanctuary, and from Tāj al-Aʾimma.
(1) Ibn Khallikan is one of those who held this view; see Wafayat, vol. 3, p. 410.
(*) Al-Sila, vol. 2, p. 553; Maʿrifat al-Qurraʾ al-Kibar, vol. 1, p. 351; al-Iʿbar, vol. 3, p. 285; Mirʾat al-Jinan, vol. 3, p. 120; Ghayat al-Nihaya, vol. 2, p. 153; Kashf al-Zunun, p. 1379; Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 3, p. 354; Idah al-Maknun, vol. 1, p. 221; Hadiyyat al-Arifin, vol. 2, p. 74.
(2) Ghayat al-Nihaya, vol. 2, p. 153, states that he was born in 388 AH (998 CE).
(3) Al-Sila, vol. 2, p. 553, records the name as Muhammad ibn Shurayh ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Shurayh al-Ruʿayni; the same wording is found in Maʿrifat al-Qurraʾ al-Kibar, vol. 1, p. 351, and—following it—in Ibn al-Jazari’s Ghayat al-Nihaya, vol. 2, p. 153. In Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 3, p. 354, however, Shurayh has been corrupted to Surayj (with sin), and in Idah al-Maknun, vol. 1, p. 221, to Ibn Surayj.
(4) Al-Sila reads: al-Tadhkira.
(5) So in the base manuscript. Ibn Bashkuwal, al-Sila, vol. 2, p. 404, notes that this Uthman ibn Ahmad was known as al-Qishtiyali. Ghayat al-Nihaya has al-Qustali, while Maʿrifat al-Qurraʾ al-Kibar gives ʿAmmar ibn Ahmad al-Qasatali.