al-Tanūkhī a large number of works; underneath that entry Ibn Nāṣir had added in his own handwriting: “He never heard a single thing from al-Tanūkhī—he has fabricated and lied.” Ibn Fakhr likewise recorded that he had heard Juzʾ al-Ghitrīf from Abū al-Ṭayyib, whereupon Ibn Nāṣir wrote: “He has forged this against the judge; he even conducted public auditions of Juzʾ al-Ghitrīf though he never heard a word of it from him.” Ibn Fakhr further claimed several books that he had read to Ibn Barhān, and beneath that Ibn Nāṣir commented: “By Allah, he has lied in what he recorded.” (1)
al-Samʿānī said: “I asked Abū Manṣūr ibn Khayrūn about Ibn Fakhr and he replied, ‘People used to say he was a liar.’ ”
He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 505 AH, and Sibt al-Khayyāṭ was the eldest of his pupils. (2)
193 – al-Ḥaddād, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan*
The shaykh, the imām, expert Qurʾān reciter, master of tajwīd, ḥadith scholar, long-lived authority, and musnid of his era: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mihrah al-Iṣfahānī, known as al-Ḥaddād, the leading shaykh of Isfahan in both Qurʾānic readings and ḥadith.
He was born in Shaʿbān, 419 AH.