Al-Dāraquṭnī likewise said, “He did not consider any of the jurists to carry weight. He dictated a book on the Sunan and offered critical remarks on the reports (1).”

Ibn al-Dhahabī (2) said, “Some of his high-isnād transmissions have reached me. He was one of the oceans of knowledge, but self-admiration consigned him to obscurity.”

He also compiled a book on qirāʾāt (Qurʾānic readings), a work on the unusual vocabulary of the Qurʾān, a volume entitled Mujaz al-Taʾwīl ʿan Muʿjiz al-Tanzīl, a history, and a treatise on legal contracts (3).

In that same year there died: Muḥammad ibn al-Muʾammal al-Māsarjisī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥasanuwayh the Qurʾān-reciter, Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Kindī, Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Burayah, Abū Sahl ibn Ziyād, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī al-Khaṭabī, and Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Khanb.

324 – al-Qanṭarī, Abū Bakr al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad*
The ḥāfiẓ and leading authority, Abū Bakr al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā al-Qanṭarī, from Sāmarrāʾ.

He transmitted from: al-Kudaymī, Khalaf ibn ʿAmr al-ʿUkbarī, and Miqdām ibn Dāwūd,