Bakr al-Abharī al-Mālikī declined to assume the judgeship. They asked him, “Who, then, is fit for it?” He answered, “Abū Bakr al-Rāzī.”
Al-Rāzī’s dedication in worship surpassed even that of monastics; when he in turn was pressed to accept the judiciary he likewise refused (1)—. It is said that he inclined toward the Muʿtazila, and some of his works on the Beatific Vision and other issues bear witness to that—may Allah grant us safety.
He died in Dhu al-Ḥijjah of the year 370 AH, at the age of sixty-five.
Among those who also died that same year were: Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Yashkurī al-Dīnawarī; the leading authority of Khurāsān, Abū Sahl Bishr ibn Aḥmad ibn Bishr al-Isfarāʾīnī, the ḥadith scholar; the ḥadith master of Aleppo, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Sabīʿī; the ḥadith scholar of Egypt, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Rashīq al-ʿAskarī; the senior grammarian Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Khālawayh; the authority of Isfahān, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Fūrak al-Qabbāb; the eminent linguist Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Azhar ibn Ṭalḥah al-Azhari al-Harawī; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Baghdādī, known as Ghundar al-Warraq; the Qur’an reciter Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rāzī al-Daybulī; and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣāʾigh of Isfahān, who had travelled to study under al-Firyābī.
248 – Ibn Waṣīf, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Ghazzī
The shaykh, great transmitter, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Waṣīf al-Ghazzī.
He related the Muwaṭṭaʾ from al-Ḥasan ibn al-Faraj al-Ghazzī—a companion of Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr—and also transmitted from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah al-ʿAsqalānī and others.