with al-Khallāl, and the Musnad of al-Rūyānī.
He passed away on 22 Dhuʾl-Qaʿdah 607 AH.
Those who also died that same year were: Abū al-Fakhr Asʿad ibn Saʿīd in Isfahān; Abū Aḥmad ibn Sukayna in Baghdad; the ascetic shaykh Abū ʿUmar al-Maqdisī; ʿUmar ibn Tabarzad; the ruler of Mosul Nūr al-Dīn Arslān the Atabeg; and ʿĀʾisha bint Maʿmar.
255 – Manṣūr ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣāʿidī, son of al-Faḍl ibn Aḥmad, was an eminent, upright musnid, known by the kunyas Abū al-Fatḥ and Abū al-Qāsim (1). He was the son of the leading musnid of his day, Abū al-Maʿālī, son of the traditionist Abū al-Barakāt, son of the jurist of the Sacred Precinct, Abū ʿAbd Allah. Their family was al-Ṣāʿidī, originally from Farāw and later settled in Nishapur.
He was born in Ramadan 522 AH.
He heard hadith from his father, his grandfather, and—most extensively—from his paternal great-grandfather, as well as from ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad al-Khuwārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Fārisī, Wajīh al-Shahhāmī, and a number of others.
Among those who narrated from him are Ibn Nuqṭa, al-Zakī al-Barzālī, Abū ʿAmr ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, al-Sharaf al-Mursī, al-Raḍī Ibrāhīm ibn al-Burhān, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Hilāla, and many others.