Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Rāzī, I broke into tears, cried out, tore my garment, and threw dust over my head. My family gathered round me and said, “What has happened to you?” I replied, “Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb has just been mourned to me. You kept me from travelling to him, so now comfort me and give me permission to go to Nasā to al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān. At that time there was not a single hair here,” and he pointed to his face (1).
I say: Ibn Ayyūb died in 294 AH, and al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān is not of his rank in terms of seniority.
He went on: “Then I set out for Iraq in 296 AH in the company of my relatives.”
Hamzah al-Sahmī said: I heard al-Ismāʿīlī say, “I wrote down, in my own hand, the dictated traditions of Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Dāmaghānī in 283 AH, but I no longer remember what he looked like.”
Hamzah also said: Abū Bakr died on the first of Rajab, 371 AH, at the age of ninety-four.
209 – al-Sabīʿī, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ
The shaykh, ḥāfiẓ, accomplished scholar, and musnid: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Hamdānī, known as al-Sabīʿī al-Ḥalabī. The Sabīʿī Lane in Aleppo is named after him.
He travelled in search of knowledge and heard ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Ḥibbān, ʿAbd Allah ibn Nājiya, and al-Qāsim