the book of Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf, where al-Marrār states:

“I wrote ḥadith from one thousand shaykhs, yet I have never seen anyone the like of al-Jurjānī. When the ordeal concerning the ‘utterance (lafẓ) of the Qur’an’ arose, al-Jurjānī kept silent, so the people of ḥadith turned against him. I heard my father say: I went with Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥammūyah, al-Marrār’s brother, and he stopped at al-Jurjānī’s teaching circle and asked, ‘What is your view regarding the utterance of the Qur’an?’

He remained silent until the question was put to him a third time. Then he said, ‘I regard it as a novel innovation (bidʿah), and every bidʿah is misguidance.’

Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad remarked: He was one of the scholars and jurists—trustworthy and truthful.

It was said that he engaged in debate with Abū ʿUbayd.

He died in 257 AH; another report says 256 AH. He left behind eminent descendants who are held in esteem in Hamadhān. ﵀

None of this imam’s higher-level isnāds have reached us.

64 – al-Ashajj, Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd Allah ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥuṣayn (ʿ)

The ḥāfiẓ, the imam, the firmly reliable authority, the shaykh of his time: Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd Allah ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥuṣayn al-Kindī, the Kufan, Qur’anic exegete and prolific author.

He narrated from: Hushaym ibn Bashīr, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, ʿAbd Allah ibn Idrīs, ʿUqbah ibn Khālid, ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Ḥarb, Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar, Ziyād ibn Ḥasan ibn al-Furāt, Abū Muʿāwiyah, Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth, Ibrāhīm