Transmitters who narrated from him include Ibn ʿAsākir, Yaḥyā ibn Thābit al-Baqqāl, and Yaḥyā ibn Būsh. He was deeply versed in kalām, and al-Rāshid bi-llāh acquired refined conduct at his hand. Within the legal school he was regarded as a leading authority. He passed away in Baghdad at the beginning of Rajab 527 AH.

358 – Ibn al-Fatā, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Salmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh*

The erudite scholar and lecturer at the Niẓāmiyya, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Salmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh Abū Ṭālib ibn Muḥammad al-Nahrawānī, later known as al-Iṣbahānī.

He heard hadith from the chief scholar Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Thaqafī.

Among those who transmitted from him were Abū al-Muʿammar al-Anṣārī and others. He was an outstanding preacher, thoroughly grounded in jurisprudence and kalām, and possessed commanding dignity.

Abū al-Muʿammar said, “My eyes have never seen anyone his like.”

Ibn ʿAsākir states in Ṭabaqāt al-Ashʿariyya: “He was someone who filled the eye with beauty and the ear with eloquence, surpassed his peers in debate because he was the most articulate of them, and he studied jurisprudence under Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Thābit al-Khujandī, the lecturer at the Niẓāmiyya of Isfahān.”

It is reported that he was asked, “What is the sign that one’s fast of Ramaḍān has been accepted?”
He replied, “To die in Shawwāl before becoming entangled in base deeds.” Indeed, he died on the sixth of Shawwāl 525 AH, and the people of Baghdad exhibited a degree of grief over him the like of which had never been witnessed (1).