al-Zaynabī; Abū ʿAmr ibn Mandah; and many others.

Among those who narrated from him were: his son Shahardār; Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-ʿAṭṭār; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-ʿAṭṭār, the Qurʾān-reciter; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl; Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī; Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī; and several more.

Yaḥyā ibn Mandah said: “He was a bright and pleasant young man, quick-witted, firm upon the Sunnah, and sparing in speech.”

I say: his retention was only average; others were more accomplished and more precise than he (1).

He died on the nineteenth of Rajab in the year 509 AH, at the age of sixty-four.

In the same year there also died: Abū ʿUthmān ibn Malla, the preacher; Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Aʿmash; the preacher of Ṣūr, Ghayth ibn ʿAlī al-Armanāzī, the hadith scholar (2); Abū Yaʿlā Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Hibāriyya, the poet; Abū l-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn al-Saqaṭī (3); and Qiwām ibn Zayd al-Bakrī al-Dimashqī al-Mizzī.

His son, the ḥāfiẓ Shahardār, died in 558 AH, as will be mentioned later.

His grandson, Shirawayh ibn Shahardār, passed away in 600 AH at the age of eighty-two; he had heard from Zāhir al-Shaḥḥāmī the Musnad of Abū Yaʿlā (4).