He studied the Qur’an readings and the literary disciplines in Marw with Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Dahhān. Later he set out on his journeys: in Baghdad he joined al-Ḥammāmī and recited to him; in Damascus he read to al-Ruhāwī; in Harran to al-Sharīf al-Zaydī; and to a number of other senior authorities, until the mantle of leadership in the science of recitation came to rest upon him.
Prominent imams graduated under his tutelage, and he lived a little over ninety years. This, his son—the reciter Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—has related. He died on the twelfth of Dhu al-Ḥijja in the year 484 AH. A lengthy biographical entry is devoted to him in Tabāqāt al-Qurrāʾ.
318 – Māzin*
The honorific of the accomplished poet Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān.
(1) The Qur’an reciter Abu al-Hasan Ali b. Ahmad b. Umar al-Baghdadi al-Hammami (d. 417/1026); his biography appeared earlier in vol. 17, no. 265.
(2) The Qur’an reciter Abu Ali al-Husayn b. Ali b. Ubayd Allah al-Rahawi al-Sulami (d. 414/1023); see Ghayat al-nihaya, 1/245-246.
(3) The Qur’an reciter Abu al-Qasim Ali b. Muhammad b. Ali al-Alawi al-Zaydi al-Harrani (d. 433/1041); his biography appeared earlier in vol. 17, no. 327.
(4) Al-Ansab and al-Lubab record his death in 481/1088; both the author of the present work and Ibn al-Jazari mention these two opinions in their biographical collections.
(5) Cited in the sources used for this entry.
(*) al-Matmah, 80; al-Dhakhira, part 1, section 2, 691-729; al-Kharida, fol. 12/54; al-Muhammadun min al-shuara, 99; Takmila of Ibn al-Abbar, 133; al-Maghrib, 2/143-145; al-Masalik by al-Umari, 11/400; Fawat al-wafayat, 3/283-284; al-Wafi, 2/86-88; al-Ihata, 2/333-337; Nafh al-tib, 3/502-505; Kashf al-zunun, 765; Hadiyat al-arifin, 2/75. Ibn Khallikan reproduces a qasida praising Ibn Sumadih in Wafayat, 5/41, where the poet is named Abu Abd Allah Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Khalaf b. Ahmad b. Uthman b. Ibrahim, known as al-Haddad al-Qaysi.