and Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ and others of the same stature.
Those who transmitted from him were Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī ʿUthmān the ascetic, Zāhir al-Sarakhsī, and a number of others.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim said, “He is a reliable shaykh.” He passed away in 313 AH.
Abū Saʿd, in his work al-Ansāb, wrote: “He is Muḥammad ibn Ḥafṣ al-Āzādhwārī.”
Āzādhwār is a village belonging to Juwain.
I add: he is better known as al-Shaʿrānī.

260 – Ibn al-Jaṣṣāṣ, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī *
A leading notable and man of vast wealth: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Jaṣṣāṣ al-Baghdādī, the jeweler, merchant, and coppersmith.
Ibn Ṭūlūn remarked: “Nothing is sold to us except through Ibn al-Jaṣṣāṣ.”
He also narrated: “One day I was standing in the vestibule when a stewardess came out carrying a hundred jewels, each worth one thousand dinars. She said, ‘We want you to drill these gems so that they become smaller.’ I quickly took them from her, spent the rest of the day purchasing stones for one hundred thousand dirhams—each stone for a thousand—then brought them back to the stewardess and said, ‘We have drilled them.’”