Ibn Surayj himself supervised his Qur’an instruction. He passed away in Muḥarram of the year 308 AH.

His father was:

212 – Abū Ṭālib al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Salamah *
A distinguished linguist, man of letters, and leading scholar. He composed several books on the subtleties of the Qur’an and on literature. He studied under Ibn al-Aʿrābī and other celebrated scholars, and figures such as al-Ṣūlī and others studied under him. He died sometime after 290 AH. His own father—Salamah ibn ʿĀṣim (1), the grammarian—was the chief transmitter of al-Farrāʾ’s teachings. Among the earlier authorities there was also al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Muḥammad al-Ḍabbī, the Qur’an reciter (2), a companion of ʿĀṣim.

213 – al-Tustarī, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Zuhayr **
The Imām, the authoritative proof, the accomplished hadith scholar, peerless, the standard-bearer of the memorisers, Shaykh al-Islām: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Zuhayr al-Tustarī, the ascetic.