Those who narrated from him were: his son, the Imam ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Khaṭṭāb al-Rāzī; Abū Masʿūd al-Bajalī; and Ṭāhir ibn Aḥmad al-Maydānī.
He was counted among the scholars of hadith.
He lived until the year 409 AH.

182 – ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ilyās al-ʿUbaydī *
A cousin of al-Ḥākim (1) and his designated heir-apparent—an impious, unjust man.

He was appointed over Greater Syria in 410 AH, where he permitted wine and singing, practices that al-Ḥākim had strictly forbidden. He was also miserly, so the emirs came to loathe him. They wrote to al-Ḥākim, claiming he was plotting evil, and a year later al-Ḥākim summoned him. He departed, and in his absence Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Khazzāz, aided by the ahdāth (youth militia), seized Damascus and routed the troops.

When al-Ḥākim realized that the crown prince remained loyal, he restored him to office. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm re-established control, and the ahdāth rallied to him. Ibn Abī Ṭālib then overreached and rebelled; the troops captured and crucified him.

The heir-apparent next confiscated wealth from the populace and ruled tyrannically. After al-Ḥākim’s death, they arrested the heir-apparent, shackled him, and imprisoned him in Egypt for a time; several people were killed during his capture. He never performed the Eid prayer, and in the end he killed himself in prison—may Allah withhold His mercy from him.