He lived in Hamadān for a time and passed away in its outskirts.
Shīrawayh said: “He was among those dedicated to this discipline—eloquent in expression, widely travelled, truthful, and well-versed in all the sciences. Of all the people I have met, I have not seen anyone with more books or more audition certificates than he; death simply overtook him.”
Yaḥyā ibn Mandah remarked: “He is one of the leading ḥuffāẓ, sound in transmission; he both understands a ḥadith and preserves it.”⦗1⦘
Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAlī, the ḥāfiẓ, said: “I heard Masʿūd ibn Nāṣir al-Sijzī say, ‘I testify that every Baghdadi book in ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Salīṭī’s possession is nothing but plunder taken during al-Basāsīrī’s raid on Baghdad; they are of no use for worldly life or for religion.’”⦗2⦘
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī stated: “Zāhir died in Hamadān in the year 482 AH.”⦗3⦘
He is the one who prepared a selection of some of al-Jawharī’s dictation sessions.
50 – al-Tunkutī, Abū al-Fatḥ Naṣr ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Qāsim*
The eminent shaykh, scholar, muḥaddith, and reliable authority: Abū al-Fatḥ Naṣr ibn al-Ḥasan ibn