He narrated extensively, but in his latter days he lost his sight, and he kept a small shop in the market of the Razzāzīn (1).

Al-Khaṭīb said: “He attended many audition sessions, learned from numerous shaykhs, and was, on the whole, inclined to honesty. I examined a section of his autograph notebooks containing the dictations (amālī) of Ibn al-Sammāk. In some folios his audition was written in an old hand; I later found that the text had been altered, with additions inserted in a newer script.”

He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 419 AH (2).

In that same year there also passed away: Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Manṣūr al-ʿĀlī (3) in Herat; al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Jibārah—spelled with a kasrah on the jīm—al-Jawharī in Damascus; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Aḥmad b. Mishmās al-Dimashqī; Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Abī ʿAlī Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dhakwānī (4); Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Makhlad al-Bazzāz; Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥayd (5); and Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. Aḥmad al-Thaqafī.

233 – Ibn Makhlad, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Baghdādī *

The venerable, long-lived, truthful shaykh and the foremost musnid of his day: Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Makhlad al-Baghdādī, known as al-Bazzāz (6).