Qur’an recitation; he studied jurisprudence under Shaykh Abū Isḥāq (1).
Ibn al-Jawzī (2) said: “I heard ḥadith from him when it was read by the ḥāfiẓ Ibn Nāṣir, and I myself read to him extensively. He was trustworthy, devoted, and constant in his recitation. He served as a judicial witness and was later removed from that post. He died in Rajab of the year 547 AH.”
I say: he also held the judgeship of Dayr al-ʿĀqūl (3).
He passed away on the fourth of Rajab, at the age of eighty-eight.
In the same year there also died: Abū al-Khayr Jāmiʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Naysābūrī (4); Abū al-Qāsim al-Junayd ibn Muḥammad al-Qāyinī (5) in Herat; the ḥadith scholar ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shaʿrī the Ṣūfī, father of Zaynab; the jurist Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, the mu’adhdhin (6); the senior Qur’an master Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Ibn Ghulām al-Furs al-Dānī (7); Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Ḥurḍī al-Naysābūrī (8); Abū ʿĀmir Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Yanq al-Shāṭibī, the man of letters and physician (9); Sultan Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad the Seljuq (10); and the renowned preacher Abū