Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī described him by saying: "The Imām, the preacher, the one who attests to the integrity of witnesses." ʿAbd al-Ghāfir al-Fārisī said in his book *al-Siyāq li-Tārīkh Naysābūr*: "A shaykh, well-known, trustworthy; his household is a household of purification and uprightness, and he is among the foremost of the judiciary council. He is among those who are accepted and relied upon by all groups, and he is sound in belief, following the Sunnī way." He died in the year four hundred and sixty-nine, and the qāḍī, the Imām Manṣūr ibn Ṣāʿid, led the funeral prayer over him. (1)

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(1) Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣarīfīnī in *al-Muntakhab min Kitāb al-Siyāq li-Tārīkh Naysābūr*, biography no. 234, and al-Dhahabī in *Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ* 18/250.