He also left behind a sizable dīwān (1). He passed away in Shawwāl of the year 405 AH, in his early eighties—may Allah pardon him.

140 – al-Khwārazmī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Baghdādī *

The mufti, the erudite scholar, and shaykh of the Ḥanafīs: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārazmī—later known as al-Baghdādī—was a pupil of Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī and others, yet his transmissions are few.

Al-Barqānī related from him and said: “I heard him say, ‘Our religion is the religion of old women; we have nothing at all to do with speculative theology.’”

He had a Ḥanbalī imam who led him in prayer (2).

Qāḍī Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣaymarī remarked: “Later our shaykh Abū Bakr al-Khwārazmī became the imam of the followers of Abū Ḥanīfah and their mufti. People have never seen his like for the excellence of his fatwās and his teaching. He was offered the judiciary several times, but he refused—may Allah protect him— (3).”

I (the author) say: He died in Jumādā al-Ūlā of the year 403 AH. The jurists of Baghdad trained under him.

141 – Ibn Julah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Abharī **

The imam, the trustworthy authority, the man of letters: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Julah