His son ʿAlī succeeded him. He died at the beginning of the year 500 AH, at the age of eighty-odd years. By that time he had brought under his rule many of the great cities of al-Andalus and the opposite shore (1); had he pressed on, he would have taken Egypt and Syria as well.

157 – al-Muṭarraz Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Sanda*
The shaykh, scholar, reliable and eminent authority, the chief ḥadith transmitter of Isfahān: Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Sanda al-Iṣfahānī, known as al-Muṭarraz, keeper of the Thaqafī dignitary’s library.

He studied under Abū ʿAlī Ghulām Muḥsin, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbdakūyah, al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jamāl, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAṭṭār, Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ, and many others.

Those who transmitted from him include Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sinjī, Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, and others, while Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī heard from him in person.

Al-Samʿānī said: “He is reliable and upright.” Al-Silafī commented: “A scribe and a leader of the highest standing; we read before him from Ghulām Muḥsin, Ibn Muṣʿab, and a group, and I recited the Qur’an to him from Abū Bakr ibn…"