and Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṣaydalanī, together with many others.

Abū Mūsā said: I heard him say, “I was born on the night of mid-Shaʿbān in the year 436 AH. My father’s name was Muḥammad, and his kunya was Abū al-Faḍl, so the epithet ‘al-Faḍl’ became the one by which he was chiefly known.”

Al-Samʿānī remarked: He was of upright conduct. He recited according to several readings, copied numerous fascicles, possessed a wide range of narrations, and was deemed trustworthy. He wrote to me granting ijāzah. Among the works he had heard are: one volume of Tabaqāt al-Ṣaḥābah by Abū ʿArūbah (1), which he heard from Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm through Ibn al-Muqrīʾ from the author; al-Ashrāf by Ibn al-Mundhir, which he likewise heard from Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm through Ibn al-Muqrīʾ; and the Sunan of al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥulwānī (2).

I say: He died in Shaʿbān—some said in Ramaḍān—of the year 524 AH.

323 – Al-Kurāʿī, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd*
The venerable, long-lived shaykh, the leading musnid of Marw: Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn