In that same year there died: Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Bāqillānī; the Qur’an-reciter Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Ashʿath; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sarrāj; the hadith scholar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Jurjānī (1); the hadith scholar ʿAbd al-Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad al-Shīḥī (2); Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Sirāj (3), the foremost philologist of his age in al-Andalus; the leading transmitter of the day, al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Thaqafī (4); Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-ʿUmayrī (5), the ascetic; and Abū al-Muẓaffar Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad al-Samʿānī.
- Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Samʿānī — Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār
He was the imam, erudite scholar, mufti of Khurasan, and shaykh of the Shafiʿis: Abū al-Muẓaffar Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Aḥmad al-Tamīmī, al-Samʿānī, al-Marwazī. He was first affiliated with the Ḥanafī school and later adopted the Shafiʿī school.
He was born in 426 AH.
He studied under Abū Ghānim Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Kurāʿī and Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad,