Ibn Shafiʿ said: He died on the twenty-ninth (1) of 551 AH.
I (the author) add: Al-Khaṭīb al-Dowlaʿī transmitted the Sunan from him.
Those who recited to him were Ḥamzah ibn al-Qubayṭī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Nāqid, and ʿAlī ibn al-Dabbās.
227 - al-Aghraji, Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Saʿīd *
The imam, polymath, and leading shaykh of the scholars of Khwarizm: Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Saʿīd.
He narrated from Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl ibn al-Bayhaqī and al-Zamakhsharī.
He was trustworthy, upright, a preacher, debater, mufti, and ardent lover of hadith; he lived past eighty years.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of 553 AH, and the people thronged around his bier—may Allah have mercy on him.
Ibn Arsalān mentioned him in his History.
228 - al-Bīkandī, Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad **
The distinguished shaykh, devoted worshipper, and hadith transmitter: Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Bukhārī, al-Bīkandī.