and gentle in disposition; for a time he occupied the shūrā and the Friday pulpit of Valencia. The leadership in Qur’ānic recitation and the issuing of legal opinions ultimately rested with him. He produced a large work entitled Rayy al-Ẓamʾān (“Quenching the Thirsty”) on Qur’ānic exegesis, as well as a commentary on Sunan al-Nasā’ī in which he showed the utmost diligence and breadth. Several transmitters narrated from him, and he was the last of the scholars of eastern al-Andalus.
He died in Ramadan 567 AH (1), at more than eighty years of age—may Allah have mercy on him.

367 – Al-Bayhaqī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Amīrak *

Minister, eminent scholar, and prolific author, honored with the epithets Sharf al-Dīn and Ḥujjat al-Dīn: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī, son of Abū al-Qāsim Zayd ibn Amīrak al-Anṣārī, al-Awsī, al-Khuzaymī—so called in reference to Khuzaymah ibn Thābit—originally from Bust, later known as al-Bayhaqī.
His birth: 499 AH.
He assumed the judgeship of Bayhaq in 526 AH.
Abū al-Naḍr al-Fāmī said: “He united the prestige of sword and pen; his nobility blazed like a beacon on a banner. A rarity of the age, he inaugurated the governorship of Herat for fifteen years, and to him belonged decision and resolution.”
I add: al-Ḥayṣ-Bayṣ also composed panegyrics in his praise.