He would also transcribe al-Khaṭīb’s History and sell the copies.
Al-Samʿānī said, “He was trustworthy and upright; he had no occupation except the recitation and teaching of the Qur’an.”
Ibn al-Khāshshāb added, “He was a Shafiʿi and counted among the People of the Sunnah.”
I say: Those who narrated from him include Ibn ʿAsākir (1), Abū Mūsā, Ibn al-Jawzī, al-Kindī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿd the jurist, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Mawṣilī, and several others.
The last person to receive an authorization (ijāzah) from him was Abū Manṣūr ibn ʿUfaijah (2).
Among those who recited the various transmissions of the Qur’an to him were Abū al-Yumn al-Kindī, Yaḥyā al-Awānī (3), and Ibrāhīm ibn Baqāʾ the dairyman.
He died in Rajab, 539 AH, in Baghdad.

56 – al-ʿIjlī, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAlī*
The ḥadith scholar, the imām: Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Qāsim ibn ʿInān al-ʿIjlī, al-Badīʿ al-Hamadhānī, son of Abū Manṣūr, one of the notable figures.