A number of students studied jurisprudence under him, and his opinion is counted as an authoritative position within the school. Shaykh Abū Isḥāq said: “He was blind and authored many fine works. Among them are: al-Kāfī, Kitāb al-Niyya (On Intention), Kitāb Satr al-ʿAwra (On Concealing the Private Parts), Kitāb al-Hadiyya(1), Kitāb al-Istishāra wa al-Istikhāra (On Consultation and the Prayer of Seeking Guidance), Kitāb Riyāḍat al-Mutaʿallim (Training the Student), and Kitāb al-Imāra(2) (On Leadership).”
I say: he died in 317 AH, though elsewhere I recorded that he passed away in Basra in Ṣafar 320 AH. His son Abū ʿĀṣim led the funeral prayer over him.
27 – Ibn Khayrān, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Baghdādī*
The Imām, leading Shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Khayrān al-Baghdādī al-Shāfiʿī.
Qāḍī Abū al-Ṭayyib(3) said: “Abū ʿAlī ibn Khayrān used to reproach Ibn Surayj for accepting the judgeship, saying: ‘None of our companions ever took up that office; it was only found among the adherents of Abū Ḥanīfa.’(4)"