Narrated on his authority were Ibn ʿAsākir (1), al-Samʿānī, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, Ibn al-Jawzī, Aḥmad ibn Badhāl, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀqūlī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Dabīqī, ʿUmar ibn Ṭabarzadh, Abū al-Yaman al-Kindī, a number of others, and his son Abū al-Saʿādāt Naṣr Allāh al-Qazzāz; and, by written authorization, al-Muʾayyad al-Ṭūsī.
He was a righteous and amiable shaykh, pure-hearted, of fine character, patient, and occupied only with matters that concerned him.
He is thought to have been born in 453 AH.
He passed away on the fourteenth of Shawwal, 535 AH, and his brother Abū al-Fatḥ led the funeral prayer. He had heard a great deal and transmitted it, his auditions being sound. Al-Samʿānī and others commended him.
Those who died in the same year were: the judge Abū Bakr (2); Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Saʿd al-ʿIjlī, known as al-Badīʿ (3); the ḥāfiẓ Ismāʿīl al-Taymī (4); Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-Qaysī, the linguist (5); the traditionist Razīn al-ʿAbdarī (6); ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Aḥmad ibn Tawbah (7); ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shādhyākhī (8); and ʿAṭāʾ (9) ibn Abī Saʿd, the servant of the shaykh—