He died in 350 AH.
17 – Yaḥyā ibn Manṣūr ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Malik*
The judge of Nishapur, Abū Muḥammad. He related ḥadith from ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Baghawī, Abū Muslim al-Kajji, Aḥmad ibn Salamah, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr Qashmard, and a host of others, and he possessed an abundant collection of narrations.
Those who reported from him include al-Ḥākim, Yaḥyā al-Muzzakkī, Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī ʿUthmān the ascetic, his grandson ʿAnbar ibn al-Ṭayyib, and many others.
Al-Ḥākim said, “He held the judiciary for a little over ten years, after which he was removed and replaced by Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥanafī in the year 339 AH. In his day he was the leading ḥadith scholar of Nishapur and was praised for his judgments. The major memorisers attended his sessions—among them Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Akhram and Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad.”
He died in 351 AH, a year in which many eminent people also passed away. During that same year the Byzantines advanced, capturing Aleppo, ʿAyn Zarbah (1), and several other towns. Sayf al-Dawlah could not repel them, and a great multitude were killed.
18 – Ibn Afrajah, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Taymī**
The Imām and ḥadith master, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf ibn Yazīd ibn