He told me, “I was born in Shaʿbān of the year 365 AH.”
He added, “My father used to say that we were of Arab descent.”
He also said, “Death overtook him while he was on the road—in the year 441 AH.”
In that same year there passed away: the traditionist Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAtīqī (1); the philologist Abū al-Qāsim Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Ifnīlī al-Zuhrī of Córdoba; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥimṣah (2) al-Ḥarrānī; the ruler of Mosul, Muʿtamid al-Dawlah Qirwāsh ibn Muqallad ibn al-Musayyib al-ʿUqaylī (3); the judge Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā al-Saʿdī in Egypt; Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Quhustānī; Aḥmad ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn Aḥmad ibn Yazdād al-Wāsiṭī, the perfumer; and Faḍl ibn Aḥmad al-Thaqafī, the father of al-Raʾīs Abū ʿAbd Allāh.
405 – al-Barmakī, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad
The shaykh, imām and mufti, the last of the musnid transmitters: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Barmakī, later al-Baghdādī, a Ḥanbalī.
It was said that his family hailed from a village called al-Barmakiyyah; others reported that his forefathers had settled in a quarter bearing that name.
He was born in the year 361 AH.