and Muḥammad ibn al-Saqqāʾ, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Najīramī, Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him included: al-Khaṭīb, Khālid ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid the merchant, Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mawṣilī, the amir Abū Naṣr ibn Mākūlā, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bayān al-Razzāz, Abū Yāsir Aḥmad ibn Bundār, and several others.
Al-Khaṭīb (1) said: “I wrote hadith from him; he was truthful and devout. He died on the day of ʿId al-Fiṭr in the year 431 AH.”
I add: He passed away in the thirties of the century.
Al-Khaṭīb (2) also reported: “He told me that his father came to Baghdad secretly, hoping by gentle means to take him away. But when he saw me so engrossed in study and so persistent in meeting the shaykhs, he realized that Islam had taken firm root in my heart, so he left.”
In that same year there also died: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Dūmā al-Niʿālī; the qāḍī Abū ʿAmr Sayyār ibn Yaḥyā al-Harawī (3), father of Ṣāʿid; the qāḍī Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid ibn Muḥammad al-Ustawāʾī (4); Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAliyyak (5); ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ṭubayz (6) in Damascus; ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad al-Qayshṭālī (7); Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Tamīmī al-Jawāliqī; and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn