He lived to a great age, and among his earliest teachers was ʿUrwah ibn Marwān. He died at the beginning of the year 283 AH.

202 – al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Faḍl ibn ʿUmayr, Abū ʿAlī al-Bajalī*
The erudite scholar, Qur’anic exegete, leading authority, linguist, and ḥadith expert—Abū ʿAlī al-Bajalī, originally of Kūfah and later of Nishapur—was the foremost scholar of his time.

He was born before 180 AH.

He heard ḥadith from Yazīd ibn Hārūn, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bakr al-Sahmī, al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah al-Madāʾinī, Shabābah ibn Sawwār, Abū al-Naḍr Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim, Hawdhah ibn Khalīfah, Ismāʿīl ibn Abān, and a number of others.

Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Hāniʾ, Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-ʿAtakī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAdl, ʿAmr ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr, Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb the jurist, Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn al-Akhram, and others.

Al-Ḥākim said: “Al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Faḍl ibn ʿUmayr ibn Qāsim ibn Kaysān al-Bajalī, the Qur’an exegete, was the leading authority of his era on the meanings of the Quran. Ibn Ṭāhir brought him to Nishapur and purchased the Dār ʿAzrah for him; he took up residence there in 217 AH. He went on teaching the people and issuing legal verdicts in that house until he died, and he was buried in the cemetery of al-Ḥusayn ibn Muʿādh in 282 AH. He was one hundred and four—"