Abu Mansur al-Khayyat, reciter of the blind in Baghdad

Abu Mansur al-Khayyat, Muhammad b. Ahmad b. 'Abd al-Razzaq — of Shiraz by origin, Baghdadi, the saffar, Hanbali muqri' and ascetic; born in Shawwal or Dhu'l-Qa'da 401, he read the qira'at under Abu Nasr Ahmad b. 'Abd al-Wahhab b. Masrur, read fiqh under the qadi Abu Ya'la, and composed Kitab al-muhadhdhab on the readings. ¹

He was imam of Ibn Harda's mosque at Baghdad by the caliphal palace's precinct, keeping i'tikaf there a long time — teaching the blind Qur'an for God's sake, praying for them and spending on them — until those of the blind whose Qur'an he taught reached seventy thousand, per what Ibn al-Najjar found in Abu Nasr al-Yunarti's hand. He died in 497. ¹