He was born in 490 AH.
He taught and related hadith in Ḥarrān and Aleppo, receiving (a portion of Ibn ‘Arafah’s collection) from Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bunān.
Among those who transmitted from him were: Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad al-Shīrāzī, the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Ṣaṣrā, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Zayyāt; his two brothers Barakāt and Muḥammad; ʿAlī ibn Salāmah al-Khayyāṭ; ʿAmmār ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim; the jurist Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad al-Maqdisī; and his son ʿAbd al-Razzaq ibn Aḥmad.
Ibn al-Najjār said: “He taught in Ḥarrān, issued legal opinions, and passed away in 576 AH.”
I (the author) say: it is also reported that he died in 575 AH.
49 – al-Zaydī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Hāshimī*
The imam and exemplar Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Hāshimī—an ʿAlid, a Ḥusaynid, later nicknamed al-Zaydī, Baghdadi by abode, Shāfiʿī in law, an ascetic and ḥadith memorizer.
He was born in 529 AH.
He heard hadith from Ibn al-Zāghūnī, Ibn Nāṣir, Naṣr ibn Naṣr al-ʿUkbarī, and Abū