He passed away sometime around the year 500 AH, for he is known to have been teaching hadith as late as 499 AH.
153 – al-Shīrawī, Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn
A righteous, devout, long-lived shaykh and the pre-eminent transmitter of his era: Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Shīrawayh ibn ʿAlī al-Shīrawī, a merchant from Nīshāpūr.
He was born in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 414 AH.
At the age of six he heard hadith from Qāḍī Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī, Abū Saʿīd al-Ṣayrafī—of whose students he was the last—ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn Ṭāhir, the uṣūl scholar; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Muzakkī; the exemplar Faḍl Allāh ibn Abī al-Khair al-Mīhanī (1); and others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Bakr al-Samʿānī, his son the ḥāfiẓ Abū Saʿd in person, Abū al-Futūḥ al-Ṭāʾī, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Ḥājī, ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Furāwī, and many more.
By ijāzah, his transmissions were also conveyed by Dhākir ibn Kāmil al-Khaffāf and Abū al-Makārim al-Labbān.
Al-Samʿānī said in al-Ansāb (2): “He was a righteous, devout, long-lived shaykh …”