He narrated from Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-ʿAṭāridī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn al-Munādī, and Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā.

Transmitters who reported from him include Abū Isḥāq al-Ṭabarī and Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān.

Al-Khaṭīb declared him reliable (1).

He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 341 AH.

221 – ʿAlī ibn Hamshādh ibn Sakhtawayh ibn Naṣr al-Naysābūrī * (2)

A man of uprightness, a trustworthy ḥāfiẓ, the leading scholar and shaykh of Naysābūr, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Naysābūrī, and an author of several works.

Al-Ḥākim records that he was born in 258 AH.

He heard hadith from al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Faḍl the Qur’an commentator and from al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad al-Shaʿrānī.

In 277 AH he performed the pilgrimage; on that journey he heard in Rayy from Muḥammad ibn Manda, in Hamadhān from Ibrāhīm ibn Dayzīl, in Baghdad from al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah and his contemporaries, and in Mecca from Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb al-ʿAllāf and ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, narrating extensively from the latter, as well as from Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī.

In Ṭūs he received the Musnad from Tamīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāfiẓ and from scholars of his rank.