He transmitted from Abu Ishaq al-Barmaki. Among those who narrated from him were Abu Saʿd al-Baghdadi, Ismaʿil al-Taymi, and ʿAbd al-Khaliq al-Yusufi. He was a devout worshipper who frequently performed ʿumra (the lesser pilgrimage), was constant in Qurʾanic recitation, and he lived for eighty-two years (1). He died in 495 AH.
118 – al-ʿIjli, Abu Mansur Saʿd ibn ʿAli ibn Hasan *
The mufti of Hamadhan and its foremost scholar, the imam Abu Mansur Saʿd ibn ʿAli ibn Hasan al-ʿIjli, originally of Asadabad and later of Hamadhan, a Shafiʿi.
al-Samʿani said: “He is reliable, a mufti, a debater, abundant in knowledge and in practice.”
He heard hadith from Abu Ishaq al-Barmaki, Karima al-Marwaziya, and a number of others.
I (the author) say: Those who transmitted from him include his son, Abu ʿAli Ahmad; Ismaʿil ibn Muhammad al-Taymi; and—by written authorization—Abu Tahir al-Salafi.
al-Samʿani also said: “He died in Dhu al-Qaʿda, 494 AH.”
119 – Ibn al-Abrāṣ ʿAbd al-Khaliq ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf al-Baghdadi **
The righteous, long-lived shaykh, Abu Turab ʿAbd al-Khaliq ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf