Abū ʿAlī al-Daqqāq, al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad, was a well-known jurist (faqīh), man of letters, commentator on the Qurʾān and a Sufi, who lived during the 4th/10th and 5th/11th centuries.

He was originally from Nīsābūr, where he studied Arabic and legal methodology (ʿilm al-uṣūl), and then went to Marw and learnt religious law (fiqh) from al-Khaḍirī and al-Qaffāl. He gathered ḥadīths from the likes of Abū ʿAmr b. Ḥamdān in Nīsābūr and Abū ʿAlī al-Shabbūʾī and Abū al-Haytham al-Kushmīhanī in Marw. After completing his formal education, he entered a Sufi…