he narrated hadith from al-Ḥīrī and al-Ṣayrafī, while ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Furāwī and ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Zāhir transmitted from him.
86 – al-Jurjānī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf
The judge, leading scholar, hadith master and ḥāfiẓ, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Jurjānī.
He was born in 409 AH.
Among those from whom he heard are Ḥamzah ibn Yūsuf al-Sahmī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khandaqī, the pupils of Ibn ʿAdī, and al-Ismāʿīlī. In Naysābūr he studied with Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Masrūr, ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī, and other scholars of that generation.
A prolific compiler and author endowed with strong memory and insight, he produced a work on the virtues of al-Shāfiʿī and another on the virtues of Aḥmad.
Those who narrated from him include his nephew Tamīm ibn Abī Saʿīd al-Muʾaddib, al-Junayd ibn Muḥammad al-Qāynī (1), ʿAlī ibn Ḥamzah al-Mūsawī, Wajīh al-Shaḥḥāmī, Abū al-Asʿad Hibat al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qushayrī, and others.
He lived for eighty years and passed away in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 489 AH.
Among his teachers was Abū Nuʿaym ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Astarābādhī al-Ṣaghīr.