Those who narrated from him include al-Dāraquṭnī, Ibn al-Shikhkhīr (1), ʿUmar al-Kattānī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Bawwāb, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Jillīn (2), and others. I know of no criticism against him. He died in 328 AH.
102 – al-Jawzajānī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAlāʾ *
The shaykh, ḥadith scholar, reliable authority, and exemplar: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Jawzajānī (3), later of Baghdad. He was born in 235 AH. He heard ḥadith from Aḥmad ibn al-Miqdām al-ʿIjlī, Ziyād ibn Ayyūb, Abū ʿUbaydah ibn Abī al-Safar, and their peers. Those who transmitted from him include al-Dāraquṭnī, ʿUmar ibn Shāhīn, ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kattānī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Jumayʿ, and others. He was a righteous shaykh, often moved to tears, humble (4), and trustworthy. He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 328 AH.