He was born in Ṭūs (1) in 464 AH (2). The two imams Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī and Abū Ṣāliḥ the mu’adhdhin granted him authorization. He heard from Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī and a number of others, and he received the Musnad of al-Haytham al-Shāshī from Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khalīlī. Among those who narrated from him are Ibn ʿAsākir, al-Samʿānī, al-Tāj al-Masʿūdī, and ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Samʿānī. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm heard from him the Musnad of al-Shāshī and the Epistle of al-Qushayrī.
Abū Saʿd (3) said: “He was an imam, scrupulous and devoted to abundant worship. He would not eat his father’s food because it was mixed with state funds. He lived long in obedience and composed poetry with remarkable speed. He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 553 AH.”
251 – al-Ṭāʾī, Abū al-Futūḥ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī *
The shaykh, imam, righteous preacher, and hadith scholar: Abū al-Futūḥ Muḥammad, son of Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāʾī al-Hamadhānī, compiler of the renowned Arbaʿīn (4).