He heard hadith from al-Zaʿfarānī, ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Awdī, and others of their generation in Iraq; from Muḥammad ibn al-Muqriʾ in Mecca; from Abū Zurʿah in Rayy; from al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd in Beirut; from al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān in Egypt; and from Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf in Homs. He collected traditions and composed works.
Among those who narrated from him were the scholars of Rayy and Qazvīn: ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Qazwīnī, ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Shujāʿ, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr ibn Yaḥyā, and several others.
I do not know the year of his death (1), nor do I possess much information about his biography.
104 – al-Iṣṭakhrī, Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yazīd *
The imām, exemplar, erudite authority, Shaykh al-Islām: Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yazīd al-Iṣṭakhrī (2), a Shāfiʿī, the jurist of Iraq, and the companion of Ibn Surayj (3).