in the year 317 AH, and he began seeking knowledge while still very young. (1)
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said, “I read to him the entire ‘History’ of Ibn Abī Khaythama, the ‘Muwaṭṭaʾ’ of Ibn Wahb, and other works transmitted from Qāsim, together with several separate fascicles. (2)
He died with five days remaining of Dhū al-Ḥijjah in the year 395 AH.
50 – al-Ikhmīmī, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-ʿAbbās*
A shaykh, reliable transmitter, and musnid: Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-ʿAbbās al-Miṣrī, known as al-Ikhmīmī, the last surviving member of the earlier generation of narrators.
He heard ḥadith from Muḥammad b. Zabbān, ʿAlī b. Aḥmad ʿAllān, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Mihrānī, Ismāʿīl b. Wardān, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Muhandis, and others.
Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad b. Makkī narrated from him, transmitting three fascicles with elevated chains through Abū al-Qāsim b. al-Haristānī.
He passed away in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 395 AH; although he belonged to the previous tier of scholars, his death occurred considerably later than theirs. (3)