He died in the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal, 403 AH.
The ḥadith master Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī showed particular interest in al-Ḥalīmī’s remarks, most notably in his book Shuʿab al-Īmān (1).
Shaykh Abū l-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Tāj al-Umānāʾ related to us—through the reading of Abū l-Ḥajjāj in 695 AH—saying: ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzāz informed us; Abū l-Qāsim Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir informed us in 527 AH; Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the physician informed us; Imām Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥalīmī informed us; Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdān narrated to us; Aḥyad ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us; Muqātil ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; Nūḥ ibn Abī Maryam narrated to us, from Yazīd al-Raqāshī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said, “The companion of the Qur’an has a supplication that will be granted when he completes his recitation (2).”
This is a singular ḥadith; a report of this kind is not established, for both al-Raqāshī and Nūḥ are weak in their precision of transmission.
In the same year that al-Ḥalīmī died—year three after four hundred (i.e., 403 AH)—there also passed away al-Qāḍī Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib ibn al-Bāqillānī (3), the uṣūl scholar and prolific author, and the scholar of the Maghrib, Abū