He added, “He was accomplished in the sciences of grammar, rhetoric, and poetry.
He kept his distance from the ruling authorities, yet when he assumed the office of ḥisba he carried it out with exemplary conduct (1).
He passed away in Muḥarram of the year 332 AH (2).
167 – Ibn Quhiyār, al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh al-Naysābūrī *
The eminent transmitter, Abū al-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh—Muʿādh being known as Quhiyār al-Naysābūrī.
He heard from Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Razīn, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Farrāʾ, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Hilālī, and others; Abū ʿAlī, the ḥāfiẓ of Naysābūr, even compiled a selection of his narrations.
Among those who related from him are the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAlawī, Abū Ṭāhir ibn Maḥmish, and many others.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 332 AH.
Al-Ḥākim said: “I heard his sons say that he entered a bathhouse, where a drunken attendant shaved his head. The razor slipped into his skull, splitting it; they carried him out, and he died—may Allah have mercy on him.”
168 – Ibn Abī Hudhayfa, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Fazārī **
The traditionist, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Hudhayfa al-Fazārī,