Born in 391 AH.
In 408 AH he heard the Musnad of al-Haytham ibn Kulayb (1) and the Shamaʾil from Abu al-Qasim al-Khuzaʿi (2) when the latter visited their region.
Among those who narrated from him were Abu Shujaʿ al-Bistami, Masʿud ibn Muhammad al-Ghanimi, Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil al-Fudayli, Abu Nasr al-Yunarti, and others.
Al-Samʿani said: “He died in Safar 492 AH, at the age of one hundred and one.”
42 – Al-Khilʿi, Abu al-Hasan ʿAli ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Husayn *
The shaykh, the imam, the jurist, the exemplar, the musnid of the Egyptian lands, the judge: Abu al-Hasan ʿAli ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Husayn ibn Muhammad—originally from Mosul, resident in Egypt, a Shafiʿi, known as al-Khilʿi (3), author of al-Fawaʾid al-ʿIshrin (4) and transmitter of the Prophetic biography.
(1) Al-Shashi, who died in 335 AH/946 CE; the author has given his biography in vol. 15, no. 183. His Musnad is still unpublished; a fine manuscript is preserved in the Zahiriya Library, Damascus.
(2) This is ʿAli b. Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Khuzāʿī al-Balkhī, the transmitter of al-Shashi’s Musnad; he died in 411 AH/1020 CE. His notice appears in vol. 17, no. 114.
(*) Wafayat al-Aʿyan, 3/317-318; Duwal al-Islam, 2/22; al-ʿIbar, 3/334; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 4/1230; ʿUyun al-Tawarikh, 13, fol. 88-89; al-Wafi bi’l-Wafayat, 12, fol. 35; Mirʾat al-Jinan, 3/255; Tabaqat al-Subki, 5/253-255; Tabaqat al-Isnawi, 1/479; Tabsir al-Muntabih, 2/550; al-Nujum al-Zahira, 5/164; Husn al-Muhadara, 1/404-405; Kashf al-Zunun, 722, 1297; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 3/398; Taj al-ʿArus, 5/323; Hadiyyat al-ʿArifin, 1/694; al-Risala al-Mustatrafa, 91.
(3) Read with khāʾ-lam-ʿayn: the nisba al-Khulaʿī, derived from khulʿa (a robe of honour). Abū’l-Hasan was so called because he sold robes of honour in Egypt; see Ibn Khallikan, 3/318.
(4) Abū Nasr Ahmad b. al-Hasan al-Shirāzī compiled for him a twenty-part hadith collection which he entitled al-Khulaʿiyyāt.