He died in Jumada al-Akhirah of the year 333 AH, in Isfahan. Only a few reports were transmitted by the scholars of his own city.

147 – al-Lu’lui, Abu ʿAli Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAmr*

The imam, hadith scholar, and trustworthy narrator: Abu ʿAli Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAmr al-Basri, known as al-Lu’lui.

He heard from: Abu Dawud as-Sijistani; Yusuf ibn Yaʿqub al-Qalusi; al-Hasan ibn ʿAli ibn Bahr; al-Qasim ibn Nasr; and ʿAli ibn ʿAbd al-Hamid al-Qazwini.

Those who narrated from him include: al-Hasan ibn ʿAli al-Jabali; the judge Abu ʿUmar al-Qasim ibn Jaʿfar al-Hashimi; Abu al-Husayn al-Fasawi; Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Jumayʿ; and others.

Abu ʿUmar al-Hashimi said: “Abu ʿAli al-Lu’lui read the book al-Sunan to Abu Dawud for twenty years, and he was called ‘the warraq of Abu Dawud.’”

In the dialect of Basra, the term warraq denotes “the one who reads aloud to the people.”

He added: “The additional passages found in the transmission of Ibn Dasa (1) were later deleted by Abu Dawud because something in their chain troubled him.”

Through the chain of transmission already cited up to Ibn Jumayʿ: Abu ʿAli Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Lu’lui narrated to us; he said: Abu al-Haytham Bishr ibn Fafa narrated to us; he said: Abu Nuʿaym narrated to us; he said: Shuʿbah reported from