He was born in 475 AH, in Hamadhan.
He heard hadith from Fayd ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Shaʿrani, ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Hamd al-Duni, Ẓarif ibn Muhammad al-Naysaburi, the man of letters Muhammad ibn Abi al-ʿAbbas al-Abiwardi, Ismaʿil ibn al-Hasan al-Sanjabasti, ʿAbd al-Ghaffar ibn Muhammad al-Shirawi, the scholar Abu al-Mahasin al-Ruyani, Abu al-Qasim ibn Bayan al-Razzaz, Shirawayh al-Daylami, Ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi, Muhyi al-Sunna al-Baghawi, and Taj al-Islam Abu Bakr al-Samʿani; he studied jurisprudence under the last two in Marw.
Abu Saʿd al-Samʿani said: “He possessed a fair share of the sciences—jurisprudence, hadith, literature, and exhortation. I attended one of his sermons in Hamadhan and found it admirable.” (1)
I say: Among those who related from him were Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Bannaʾ the Sufi, Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Husayn ibn al-Zabidi (2), his brother al-Hasan, Abu al-Munajja ibn al-Latti, and a number of others who heard him in Baghdad.
He died in Hamadhan, in Shawwal 555 AH.
In that same year also died: the historian of Damascus al-ʿAmid Hamzah ibn Asad al-Tamimi, known as Ibn al-Qalansi (3); Hamzah ibn ʿAli ibn al-Hububi (4); al-Faʾiz ʿIsa ibn al-Zafir, the Fatimid caliph, at the age of ten (5); the Commander of the Faithful al-Muqtafi (6); and the shaykh