He enjoyed broad standing, abundant prestige, complete acceptance, and long-standing expertise in fiqh.

Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī said: “It has reached us that he conducted a dictation session in Āmul and was killed, once the session ended, on account of religious fanaticism, during Muḥarram.” He also reported that ʿImād Muḥammad ibn Abī Saʿd, the leading notable of Ray in his time, used to say, “Abū al-Maḥāsin the judge is the Shāfiʿī of his age.”

Maʿmar ibn al-Fākher said, “He was killed in the congregational mosque of Āmul on a Friday, the eleventh of Muḥarram; the heretics—that is, the Ismāʿīlīs (1)—put him to death.” He added, “Niẓām al-Mulk held him in great veneration.”

I say: He was killed in 501 AH. Ruwayān is a town in the province of Ṭabaristān, whereas Ray is a large city, and the nisba derived from it is Rāzī.

163 – Ibn al-Fārisī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad

The Imām, ḥadith master, exacting scholar, erudite authority, and truthful narrator: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Aḥmad al-Fārisī, later al-Naysābūrī; son of Shaykh Abū al-Ḥusayn and son-in-law of al-Ustād al-Qushayrī.

He transmitted extensively from his father; from Abū Ḥassān al-Muzakkī; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamdān al-Naṣrawī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥārith the grammarian; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Nīlī; Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Masrūr; and from many after them.