and the ḥadith scholar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Daqqāq.

His father died (1) when Abū Saʿd was still a small boy, whereupon his uncle and other relatives assumed his care. Ḥadith was made beloved to him, and from his earliest years he devoted himself steadfastly to its pursuit.

He travelled to Nishapur at the beginning of 530 AH, and there narrated abundantly from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Furāwī, Abū al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Qushayrī, Hibat Allāh ibn Sahl al-Sayyidī, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Bakr al-Qārīʾ, Fāṭimah bint Zaʿbal, Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir, his brother Wajīh, and their contemporaries.

He then made for Isfahan, where he heard ḥadith from al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Khallāl, Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ, Umm al-Mujtabā Fāṭimah, and the scholars present, and he transmitted profusely from the ḥāfiẓ Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī.

Afterwards he hastened to Baghdad, collecting a large body of narrations from the judge Abū Bakr al-Anṣārī, Ismāʿīl ibn al-Samarkandī, Abū Manṣūr al-Shaybānī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī, Abū Saʿd al-Zawzanī, and many others.

Later he performed the ḥajj and arrived in Damascus, where he heard from Abū al-Fatḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Maṣṣīṣī, the judge Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Qurashī, and the scholars who happened to be in attendance.

The multitude of cities he visited and the number of teachers from whom he received knowledge cannot be adequately described.

He also authored the work al-Taḥbīr fī Muʿjamihi al-Kabīr, which comprises three volumes (2).