He narrated from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-ʿUdhri, Abū Isḥāq ibn Wardūn, and Abū Bakr ibn Ṣāḥib al-Aḥbās.
Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr and Abū al-Walīd al-Bāji granted him authorization.
Ibn Bashkuwāl (1) said: “He was a man of expertise, learning, intelligence, and keen understanding. He authored a useful tafsīr and possessed sound knowledge of the fundamentals of the religion. He performed the pilgrimage; people took knowledge from him, and he granted us authorization. He was born in 441 AH and died in Jumāda al-Ūlā 532 AH at the age of ninety-one.”
I say: A number of scholars transmitted from him, among them ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ashīrī (2).
25 – al-Amīn Abū Manṣūr ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allāh
The shaykh Abū Manṣūr ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Baghdādī, known as al-Amīn (3), was the transmitter of the work al-Jaʿdiyyāt from Ibn Hazārmard al-Ṣarīfīnī.
He also heard ḥadith from al-Niʿālī and Jaʿfar al-Sarrāj.
Those who narrated from him include his son Abū Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Sukaynah, Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī, Ibn ʿAsākir (4), Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, Ibn al-Jawzī, and others.