—several times, and scarcely has the like been heard.
Tikīn then remained in command of Egypt for a number of years, until he died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 321 AH.
127 – al-Qazwīnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd ibn al-Ḥārith
He was an imām, a precise muḥaddith, and the leading scholar of Qazwīn: Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd ibn al-Ḥārith al-Asadī al-Qazwīnī.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAmr ibn Rāfiʿ, Yūsuf ibn Ḥamdān, Ismāʿīl ibn Tawbah, Sahl ibn Zanjalah, Ibn Ḥumayd, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥulwānī, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿImrān al-ʿĀbidī, Hārūn ibn Hazzārī, ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿĀṣim, and many others.
He travelled widely and acquired great learning. In Kūfah he met Ismāʿīl, the grandson of al-Suddī; in Madinah he encountered Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī, and he gathered material in abundance.
Among those who wrote from him were ʿAlī ibn Mihrawayh, Ibn Salamah al-Qaṭṭān, ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣaydānānī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Māk, and ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ.
Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Isḥāq possessed six of his ḥadiths.
Al-Khalīlī declared him trustworthy and praised him, adding: “He died in 306 AH.”
I say: He was probably a nonagenarian.