It is also related that ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Walid transmitted from him the Prophetic biography—the Abridgment of Ibn Hisham—based on what he had heard from ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Ward, whom he encountered in Egypt.

When Ibn Abī Zayd died, several poets composed elegies for him.⦗1⦘

Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥabbāl said, “Ibn Abī Zayd passed away on the fifteenth of Shaʿbān, 389 AH.” Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Manda gave the same date, whereas Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ⦗2⦘ and others dated his death to 386 AH.

5 – Abū al-Haytham ʿUtbah ibn Khaythamah ibn Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī

The shaykh of the Ḥanafīs, the Nuʿmān of his time, the judge: Abū al-Haytham ʿUtbah ibn Khaythamah ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥātim al-Naysābūrī, the Ḥanafī.

He heard ḥadith from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm and many others,
and he studied jurisprudence with Abū al-Ḥusayn⦗3⦘ al-Naysābūrī, the judge of the Two Sanctuaries.

He became the unrivaled authority of his age in the school to the point that it was said, “No Ḥanafī judge remained in Khurāsān except that he traced his affiliation back to him.”⦗4⦘

Imām Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥalīmī remarked, “Allah has blessed the knowledge of the jurist Abū al-Haytham; beyond the river there is no one who turns to analytical reasoning and dialectic except a disciple of his.”

I add: Al-Ḥākim, in his History, narrated a ḥadith from him, revered him, and spoke in his praise.