they have related that he was a liar, and it is also said that he was the one who fabricated the ḥadith about ṣalāt al-righāʾib (1).
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al-Qāsim ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid (2), Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī al-Baṣrī, the judge of Basra. He heard a vast amount of ḥadith and was regarded as reliable and trustworthy. He is the transmitter of Abū Dāwūd’s Sunan from Abū ʿAlī al-Luʾluʾī. He died in this year, having passed the age of ninety.
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Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār (3), Abū al-Faraj, the Shāfiʿī judge, known as Ibn Sumayka. He narrated from al-Najjād and others and was deemed trustworthy. He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of this year and was buried in the Bāb Ḥarb cemetery.
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Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū Jaʿfar al-Nasafī (4), the leading Ḥanafī scholar of his age. He had his own distinctive approach to legal disagreement and dialectic. Though poor and ascetic, one night he lay awake, distressed by his poverty and need. A legal issue that had long perplexed him suddenly became clear, whereupon he rose, danced, and exclaimed, “Where are the kings and the sons of kings!” His wife asked what had happened, and when he told her, she was astonished at his state of mind. He died in Shaʿbān of this year.
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Hilāl ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Saʿdān (5), Abū al-Fatḥ al-Ḥaffār. He heard ḥadith from Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, al-Najjād, Ibn al-Sammāk, and Ibn al-Ṣawwāf, and was trustworthy. He died in Ṣafar of this year at the age of ninety-two—may Allah, by His grace, have mercy on him and on us.
[Then came the year 415 AH]