Al-Ḥākim said: “He was one of the foremost scholars of the Muslims, himself the son of a scholar. He travelled in search of hadith through the Hijaz, Yemen, Iraq, and Khurasan.

It is also reported that he died in Ramadan of the year 267 AH and was devoured by a wolf—may Allah the Exalted have mercy on him.

Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Akhram said: ‘ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hilālī narrated to us, and I have never seen anyone better than him.’

Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj, when ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan was mentioned to him, remarked, ‘That good man, the son of a good man.’ (1)

202 – Muḥammad ibn ʿAmīrah, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Jurjānī
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and accomplished scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Jurjānī, who later settled in Herat.

He narrated from Isḥāq al-Azraq, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, ʿAbd al-Razzaq, and their contemporaries. A man of great stature, he undertook wide-ranging journeys in pursuit of knowledge.

Those who transmitted from him include Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sāmī, Muḥammad ibn Shādhān, Abū Yaḥyā al-Bazzār, and others.

We have been informed that he had memorised seventy thousand hadiths.