and steadfast adherence to the Sunnah; he was further favoured with a long life devoted to obedience.
It is said that he lived for one hundred and four years, and that he departed to Allah, Exalted is He, on the night of the third of Ramadan in the year 371 AH. The sounder report, however, is that he lived ninety-five years. The people pressed in great numbers around his bier; the scene was truly extraordinary. It is also related that the funeral prayer was performed for him nearly one hundred times.
In that same year there passed away: in Jurjān, Imam Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī; the righteous Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jumayʿ al-Ghassānī al-Ṣaydāwī, the father of the author of al-Muʿjam; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Salamah al-Miṣrī al-Khayyāsh; the ḥadith master Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Sabīʿī in Aleppo; the judge Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Mīmaḏī, a transmitter from Muḥammad ibn Ḥayyān al-Māzinī—though he is judged unsound; Bishr ibn Muḥammad al-Muzanī al-Harawī; the leading Qurʾān-reciter of the time, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd ibn Jaʿfar al-ʿAbbādanī al-Muṭawwiʿī, at the age of one hundred; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Bādū, who corroborated (the narration of) Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥarrānī; the muftī of the Maghrib, Abū Saʿīd; Abū Naṣr Khalaf ibn ʿUmar al-Qayrawānī al-Mālikī; Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Bayān al-Zabībī al-Bazzāz, at ninety-three years; the Maliki shaykh of Qayrawān, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Tabbān; the head of the Ḥanbalīs, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Tamīmī ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ḥārith; the scholar-ascetic Abū Zayd al-Marwazī; the ḥadith expert Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Baghdādī al-Ṣaffār; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Khalaf ibn Jiyān—with a jīm—al-Baghdādī al-Khallāl, one of the trustworthy authorities; and the Andalusian poet Abū Bakr Yaḥyā ibn Hudhayl al-Mālikī.
250 – Abū al-Fath al-Azdī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad*
The ḥadith master, the accomplished scholar: Abū al-Fath Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh