Among those who narrated from him was Ibn al-Jawzi (1), together with others. When he passed away in Baghdad he stipulated that al-Ghaznawi (2) should lead the funeral prayer over him and that he be buried beside the grave of ʿAbd Allah, son of Imam Ahmad; multitudes of people attended his funeral.

Shāfiʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Rashīd ibn al-Qāsim, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Jīlī (3), the Shāfiʿī jurist: he studied fiqh first with al-Ilkiyā al-Harrāsī and then with al-Ghazālī. He lived in al-Karkh and held a teaching circle in the portico of the Manṣūr Mosque. Ibn al-Jawzi (4) says, “I used to attend his circle.”

ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAlī ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allah, Abū Muḥammad Sibt Abī Manṣūr al-Zāhid (5): he specialized in the Qurʾānic readings, authored works on them, heard a vast number of hadiths, collected fine books, led the prayers in his mosque for more than fifty (6) years, and enabled a great many worshippers to complete the Qurʾān (7). Ibn al-Jawzi (8) remarks, “I never heard anyone whose recitation was more beautiful (9) than his.” A large crowd attended his funeral.

ʿAbbās (10), the shihna (11) of Rayy: he schemed until he gained control of the city, after which Sultan Masʿūd killed him, as already mentioned. He was generous in almsgiving and benevolent toward the populace; he slew many of the Batinis and built in Rayy a minaret from their severed heads. The people grieved for him—may Allah have mercy on him.

Muḥammad ibn Ṭirād ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī (12), Abū al-Ḥasan, naqīb of the Hāshimites: the brother of the vizier ʿAlī ibn Ṭirād, he transmitted extensively from his father, his uncle Abū Naṣr, and others, and was close to seventy years old.