ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad Abū'l-Qāsim al-Dāriqī. He was one of the Shāfiʿī imams of his time. He came to Nishapur. Then he went and settled in Baghdad. He remained there until his death. Shaykh Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāyinī said: "I have not seen anyone more learned in jurisprudence than Abū'l-Qāsim."
According to the account of Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, when Abū'l-Qāsim was asked for a fatwa, he would think at length before answering. When the fatwas he gave sometimes contradicted the rulings of the Shāfiʿī or Ḥanafī schools, he would be asked why he issued such a fatwa, and he would reply: "Woe to you! So-and-so narrated from so-and-so that holding to the word of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) is preferable to following the ijtihād (independent legal reasoning) of the Shāfiʿī and Ḥanafī schools. Opposing the Shāfiʿī and Ḥanafī schools is easier than opposing the ḥadīth."
Ibn Khallikān said: "In the Shāfiʿī school, he has many strong aspects and statements that indicate the firmness and soundness of his knowledge. He was accused of being a Muʿtazilī. He learned his knowledge from Shaykh Abū Isḥāq al-Marwazī, and ḥadīth from his maternal grandfather Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Dāriqī. Ḥasan b. Muḥammad was one of the teachers of Abū Ḥāmid al-Isfarāyinī. Most of the scholars of Baghdad and other lands studied knowledge from him."
Abū'l-Qāsim al-Dāriqī died in the month of Shawwāl of this year. There is also a weak report that he died in the month of Dhū'l-Qaʿda. He was over seventy years old at the time of his death. May Allah have mercy on him.
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasnawayh
His kunya is Abū Sahl. He was from Nishapur. He is known by the name Ḥasnavī. He was a Shāfiʿī jurist, a man of letters, and a muḥaddith (scholar of ḥadīth). He would not concern himself with things that did not pertain to him and would occupy himself with his own nafs (the lower self).