Those who narrated from him include Ibn Yūnus, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, and a number of others.

Ibn Yūnus said, “He was truthful, but the opening part of his original notebooks was lost, and he was not among those who could distinguish (between reliable and unreliable reports). Consequently, he related some things he had not actually heard. We made him verify the matter, and he retracted.”

He transmitted a great many hadiths. He told me that he was born in the year 329 AH, and he passed away in 318 AH.

297 – al-Bāshānī, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī *
The ḥadith scholar and trustworthy authority, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Razīn al-Bāshānī, from Herat.

He heard hadith from ʿAlī ibn Khushram, Sufyān ibn Wakīʿ, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Firyānānī, and others.

Among those who transmitted from him are Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Dhuhl, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Isḥāq al-Qarrāb, Zāhir al-Sarakhsī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Mālīnī, and many others.

He has been declared reliable.

He died in 321 AH.

298 – The Preacher of Balkh, Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Balkhī **
The grand Imām, the ascetic, the erudite scholar, Shaykh al-Islām, Abū ʿAbdallāh