Al-Samʿānī said: “He granted me an ijāzah for all that he had transmitted. He was well-versed in hadith, a reliable ḥāfiẓ, and exceedingly prolific; he listened to the traditions himself and dictated them to others. He passed away on the tenth of Shawwāl in the year 512 AH, a little over eighty years old. His full name was Ḥamd ibn Naṣr ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maʿrūf.

I add: Among those who narrated from him are al-Silafī, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-ʿAṭṭār the Qur’an reciter, and many others. He had a keen grasp of the school of Aḥmad, was a staunch champion of the Sunnah, greatly respected in his homeland, and outstanding in literature.

I read to Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Muḥtasib (1): Naṣr ibn Jawr informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad the ḥāfiẓ informed us; I heard Ḥamd ibn Naṣr the ḥāfiẓ in Hamadhān say, “I heard ʿAlī ibn Ḥumayd the ḥāfiẓ say, ‘I heard Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd Allāh the ḥāfiẓ say, “I heard Ḥamd ibn ʿUmar al-Zajjāj the ḥāfiẓ say:

When Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad al-Tamīmī, the ḥāfiẓ, was dictating hadith in Hamadhān, he owned a hand-mill. He sold it for seven hundred dinars and scattered the money over the ink-pots of the hadith folk.”’”

This report was passed on by Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī, from a man, from al-Silafī.

176 — Ibn al-Ābanūsī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh*
The imam, the hadith scholar, the truthful narrator: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn