Abu al-Faraj ibn Kulayb likewise received an ijazah from him.
In that same year there died: the musnid of his age, Abu al-Qasim ibn Bayan al-Razzaz; the musnid of his age, Abu Bakr ʿAbd al-Ghaffar ibn Muhammad al-Shirawi (1); the hadith scholar of Wasit, Khamis al-Hawzi (2); Abu al-Khair al-Mubarak ibn al-Husayn al-Ghassal, the Qur’an reciter (3); Abu Taḥir Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Hinna’i (4); the hafiz Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Samʿani (5); Mahmud ibn Saʿadah al-Salmasi; and Abu al-Fatḥ Naṣr ibn Ahmad al-Hanafi (6) of Herat.
- al-Aʿmash, Abu al-ʿAlaʾ Ḥamd ibn Naṣr ibn Ahmad
The imam, hafiz, and hadith scholar of Hamadhan, Abu al-ʿAlaʾ Ḥamd ibn Naṣr ibn Ahmad al-Hamadhani, the man of letters known as al-Aʿmash, is cited by Shirawayh and by Abu Saʿd al-Samʿani.
Birth: 431 AH.
He studied under: Abu Muslim ibn Ghazw al-Nuhawandi; ʿUbayd Allah, son of the hafiz Ibn Mandah; Abu Muḥammad ibn Mahil—whose personal name was Harun; ʿAli ibn Ḥumayd the hafiz; and others of their circle.