He was born in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 421 AH. He passed away—according to the dating given by Abū Mūsā—in Dhū al-Qaʿda of 514 AH.
Al-Silafī said: “He was a righteous man. He maintained close ties with the Banū Mandah, and through their instruction he studied hadith.”
During that same year the following also died: Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Bukhārī, known as al-Mubakhkhir, the brother of Hibat Allāh; the frontier’s Qur’an-reciter Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Khalaf ibn Ballīmah al-Qarawī; the foremost man of eloquence, Muʾayyid al-Dīn Abū Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭughrāʾī al-Iṣfahānī (1); the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkara al-Ṣadafī; Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī (2); the Qur’an-reciter of al-Marīya, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Shafīʿ; the musnid Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Mawāzīnī (3); Abū Naṣr al-Muʿammar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bayyiʿ; and the scholar and judge of Samarqand, Abū Bakr Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd al-Shuʿaybī.
251 – Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Mahdī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz *
The shaykh, imām, preacher, reliable authority, and noble Hāshimī: Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad, son of the shaykh Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Mahdī bi-Allāh, al-Hāshimī, al-Baghdādī, al-Ḥarīmī.