Muḥammad; and—among the others who passed away that year—
the Imām Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Miswar al-Sūsanjirdī al-Baghdādī (1);
the Andalusian traditionist Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Shinẓīr of Toledo, the companion of the ḥadith master Abū Jaʿfar ibn Maymūn. The two men were called al-Ṣāḥibān (2) because, in memorization and the quest for knowledge, they ran neck-and-neck like two racehorses. Both of them died while still in their prime. Abū Isḥāq was a devoted worshipper, a man of seclusion who stood constantly before God and called people to the Sunnah.
There was also Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Khāqān, the Qurʾān-reciter of Egypt; the exemplary ascetic Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Māhilah al-Hamadhānī, who narrated from the senior authorities; the erudite judge of Córdoba, Abū al-Muṭarrif ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Fuṭays (3) al-Mālikī, a ḥadith master; the Baghdad ascetic Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān ibn ʿĪsā al-Bāqillānī; the traditionist ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Sāmarī (4), the weaver, companion of al-Hāshimī; the imam of the Great Mosque of Damascus, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd al-Dārānī, a Qurʾān-reciter and ascetic; and the distinguished scholar Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Labbān (5), a specialist in the laws of inheritance—along with a number of others I have cited elsewhere in this book.
- al-Qābisī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalaf*—
the imam, ḥadith master, jurist, erudite scholar, and leading authority of the Maghrib, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī