ʿAdī al-Jurjānī, the Astarābādhī— a jurist and adherent of the Shāfiʿī school.
Hamzah ibn Yūsuf said: “He was born in 242 AH.”
He also said: “He held a foremost rank in both jurisprudence and hadith, and students used to undertake the journey to study with him.”
I say: Among those from whom he heard were ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb al-Ṭāʾī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī, ʿUmar ibn Shabbah al-Numayrī, al-Rabīʿ al-Murādī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Bayrūtī, ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān al-Nufaylī, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Dāmaghānī, Abū ʿUtbah Aḥmad ibn al-Faraj al-Ḥijāzī, Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Ramādī, Sulaymān ibn Sayf, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, Yūsuf ibn Muslim, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṭalaqī, ʿAmmār ibn Rajāʾ, and many others throughout Khurāsān, Iraq, the Ḥijāz, Syria, and the Jazīrah.
In Mecca he met Abū Yaḥyā ibn Abī Masarrah.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid, the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī, Abū l-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Isḥāq al-Muzakkī, Abū Bakr al-Jawzaqī, Abū Muḥammad al-Makhladī, Abū l-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baḥīrī, Abū Bakr ibn Mihrān the Qurʾān-reciter, and several others.
Al-Ḥākim said: “He was a jurist and ḥāfiẓ who possessed complete collections of musnad reports and the legal verdicts of the Companions and Followers.”
Al-Khaṭīb said: “He was one of the leading imams of the Muslims and among those who safeguarded the divine law—”