distinguished, a ḥāfiẓ, keen-minded, and cheerful in disposition … until he added: “He was the ḥāfiẓ of his time.” (1)

270 — Abū Saʿd ibn al-Ṭuyūrī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār
The shaykh, the trustworthy transmitter, the musnid: Abū Saʿd Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim al-Ṣayrafī, better known as Ibn al-Ṭuyūrī al-Baghdādī—the Qurʾān reader and book-dealer, and the brother of the ḥadīth scholar Abū al-Ḥusayn.

He was righteous, an accomplished reciter, and an abundant transmitter.

He heard ḥadīth from Abū Ṭālib ibn Ghailān, Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl, Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī, al-Jawharī, al-ʿUshārī, and many others.

He also received written authorisation from Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī, the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Khallāl, and a group besides them.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “He studied the variant Qurʾānic readings with Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Khayyāṭ and Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Bannā.”