al-Bajalī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Qanṭarī, and a number of others.
Al-Samʿānī said, “Roughly twenty individuals transmitted from him, and he was a virtuous imām. Those who narrated to us on his authority include Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Baladī, Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh the Qurʾān-reciter, Masʿūd ibn ʿUmar al-Dallāl, and Maymūn ibn Muḥammad al-Darbī.”
ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Nasafī notes in his book al-Qand: “He was born in 423 AH and died on the third of Ṣafar, 505 AH.”
195 – al-Sājī, Abū Naṣr al-Muʾtaman ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī *
The ḥāfiẓ, imām, meticulous scholar, and benefactor of the community: Abū Naṣr al-Muʾtaman ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Rabaʿī, from Dayr ʿĀqūl, a Baghdadi, known as al-Sājī.
He told Ibn Nāṣir, “I was born in Ṣafar of the year 445 AH.”
I heard ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad the jurist say: Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī informed us, and Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī informed us, that he heard al-Muʾtaman al-Sājī declare:
“Since al-Dāraquṭnī, Baghdad has produced no one with a better memory than Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb.”
I also heard al-Muʾtaman say, “Al-Khaṭīb used to remark: ‘Whoever authors a book has placed his intellect on a platter and presented it to the people.’”