Abu Yaʿqūb al-Qarrāb said, “Al-Khattābī passed away in Bust, in the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, in 388 AH.
I add: In that same year there also died the hadith scholar of Isfarāyin, Abu al-Naḍr Shāfiʿ ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAwāna al-Isfarāyini, while in his nineties; the hadith scholar of Burūjird (1), the judge Abu al-Ḥusayn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Saʿīd al-Burūjirdī, a centenarian—he narrated from Ibn Jarīr and al-Baghandī; the Musnid of Nīshāpūr, Abu al-Faḍl ʿUbayd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Fāmī; the Egyptian Qur’an reader, Abu Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn ʿIrāk al-Ḥaḍramī; the Iraqi Qur’an reader, Abu al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shanabūdhī; the master of belles-lettres, Abu ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Ḥātimī of Baghdad; the Musnid of Marw, the jurist Abu al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥaddādī, who reached the age of one hundred; the Egyptian scholar, Qur’an reader and exegete Abu Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Uḍfuwī (2); and the Meccan hadith scholar, Abu Yaʿqūb Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Dakhīl.
Ahmad ibn Salamah informed us in writing, on the authority of ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Surūr, the ḥāfiẓ; Ismāʿīl ibn Ghānim informed us; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ismāʿīl informed us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Balkhī informed us; Ḥamd ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā narrated to us; Abu Dāwūd narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Ḥuzābah narrated to us; Isḥāq ibn Manṣūr narrated to us; and Asbāṭ narrated