Al-Khalīlī said, “He is known for his integrity and sound religious practice.”
Those who transmitted from him include Hibat Allāh al-Lālkāʾī and Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bundār al-Rāzī.
He died in 383 AH.
In that same year there also passed away: Abū Bakr ibn Shadhān; ʿAlī ibn Ḥassān al-Jadalī, the companion of Muṭayyan; the hadith scholar Abū al-Faḍl Naṣr ibn Abī Naṣr al-Ṭūsī, the perfumer; and Abū Saʿīd al-Jūrī.
320 – Ibn Shāhīn, ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Baghdādī *
The shaykh, the truth-teller, the ḥāfiẓ, the scholar, the Shaykh of Iraq, and author of the Great Tafsīr: Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn Azdād al-Baghdādī, the preacher.
In his father’s own handwriting his birth is recorded as Ṣafar, 297 AH.
He himself said, “The first time I wrote down hadith with my own hand was in 308 AH.”
He heard from: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bāghandī; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī; Abū Khubayb al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Birtī; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd; Shuʿayb ibn Muḥammad al-Dhāriʿ; Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mālikī; Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid; and Abū Ḥāmid