the brilliant savant, the ḥāfiẓ, Abū al-Ḥasan, son of the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAbd Allāh, grandson of the venerable shaykh Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Fārisī, later known as al-Naysābūrī.
He authored: the book Majmaʿ al-Gharāʾib (1) on singular expressions in hadith; al-Siyāq li-Tārīkh Naysābūr (2); and al-Mufhim, a commentary on Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim.
He was born in 451 AH.
From Baghdad he received ijāza from Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī and others; from Nishapur he was licensed by Abū Saʿd al-Kanjarūdhi and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭabarī, the Qurʾān-reciter.
He listened to hadith from his maternal grandfather Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī, Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Maghribī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Ismāʿīlī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Azharī, al-Faḍl ibn al-Muḥibb, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ṣarrām (3), Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī al-Tājir, and many others.
He studied jurisprudence with Imām al-Ḥaramayn (4), excelled in the Shāfiʿī school, journeyed to Ghazna, India, and Khwārazm, met leading scholars, and was appointed preacher of Nishapur.
A precise jurist, an eloquent orator, an accomplished muhaddith, and a consummate man of letters, he passed away in 529 AH (5).
The last person known to have transmitted from him was Abū Saʿd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣaffār.