226 – Ibn Maḥmūyah, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Yazdī
The Imām, erudite scholar, jurist, and Qurʾān reciter, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn⦗1⦘ ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Maḥmūyah al-Yazdī, a Shāfiʿī who eventually settled in Baghdad.
Birth: He was born in Yazd⦗2⦘ in 473 AH—some said 474 AH.
He heard ḥadīth from al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Juwānshir, Abū al-Makārim Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Fasawī⦗3⦘ the Qurʾān-reciter, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ballūk the Ṣūfī, Ghiyāth ibn Abī Muḍar al-Iṣbahānī, and Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Thaqafī.
In Isfahan he recited the Qurʾān according to the various transmissions before Abū al-Fatḥ al-Ḥaddād.
In Baghdad he heard from Ibn al-Ṭayūrī, Ibn Khushaysh, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-ʿAllāf, Abū al-Qāsim al-Rabaʿī, and many others.
He received the abridged Sunan of al-Nasāʾī from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamd, and in Hamadhān from Nāṣir ibn Mahdī; in Isfahan as well from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mardūyah.
He studied jurisprudence in Wāsiṭ with Abū ʿAlī al-Fāriqī and in Baghdad with Abū Bakr al-Shāshī, and he took transmissions in Basra, Kufa, and Mecca.