Al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl al-Bajali

الحسين بن الفضل البجلي

Al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl ibn Umayr al-Bajali, Abu Ali, of Kufa and then Nishapur, an exegete, philologist and hadith scholar, the leading authority of his age on the meanings of the Qur'an. Ibn Tahir brought him to Nishapur, where he taught and gave fatwas until his death. He heard from Yazid ibn Harun, al-Hasan ibn Qutayba, Humayd al-Tawil and others, and transmitted to him Abu al-Tayyib Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak and Muhammad ibn Salih ibn Hani. The header gives his birth as 178 AH and his death as 282 AH. ¹