In that same year, there also passed away: Abū ʿAbd al-Malik Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Busrī (1); the Caliph al-Muʿtaḍid bi-Allāh (2); Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah al-Batlahī (3); the emir of Qayrawān, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Aghlab (4); Anas ibn al-Sullam the Damascene (5); and al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād al-Qabbānī (6).

224 – al-Ḥakkānī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Khuzāʿī *

A shaykh, ḥadith scholar, and trustworthy authority—the principal transmitter of Herat: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā, al-Khuzāʿī, al-Harawī, al-Ḥakkānī. Ḥakkān is a quarter situated at the gate of the city of Herat.

He travelled in search of knowledge and heard from: Abū al-Yamān, Ādam ibn Abī Iyās, Muḥammad ibn Wahb ibn ʿAṭiyyah, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Wuḥāẓī, and Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Sarī.

Among those who narrated from him were: Abū ʿAlī Ḥāmid al-Raffāʾ; Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mughafallī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khamīrawayh; and Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq—all scholars from Herat.

Some ḥadith critics declared him reliable.

He died in 292 AH, during the tenth decade of the century.