The ḥāfiẓ Abū Bishr al-Harawī said, “He is trustworthy and upright.”
I (the author) add: He died in Herat during Ramaḍān of the year 356 AH, and I reckon he was a little over ninety years old when he passed away.
Those who died in that same year include: the Egyptian Qur’an-reciter Aḥmad ibn Usāma Abū Jaʿfar al-Tujībī; the sultan Muʿizz al-Dawla Aḥmad ibn Būya al-Daylamī; Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mughfalī; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Dujāna; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Jārūd al-Raqqī, one of the Talfā; Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl ibn al-Qāsim al-Qālī the philologist; Abū al-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad al-Rāfiʿī; ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Abī Rūbā; ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Saqaṭī Sanaqa; the author of al-Aghānī; Sayf al-Dawla ibn Ḥamdān; Kāfūr al-Ikhshīdī; ʿUmar ibn Jaʿfar ibn Salm; and the Chief Judge Abū Naṣr Yūsuf ʿUmar, son of the judge Abū ʿUmar, in Baghdad.
5 – The Father of Tammām, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Rāzī
The imam, traditionist, ḥāfiẓ, and instructor, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Junayd al-Rāzī—formerly known as Ibn al-Rustāqī.
He heard from: Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn al-Ḍurays; Muḥammad ibn Ḥafṣ al-Mihrqānī; ʿAlī ibn al-Junayd al-Mālikī; Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Hasnajānī; and, at Nisā, from al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān; at Kufa, from Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Qattāt; and in Baghdad from al-Firyābī, Ibn Nājah, and Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd—