Al-Rāzī states in his “List of Teachers”: “I heard from him sixty juzʾ (parts), or even more.”
He passed away in Shawwāl, in the year 443 AH.
I say: he was well into his nineties.
Aḥmad ibn Nuṣayr al-Mufīd informed us; Ruwāj informed us; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAskar al-Makhzūmī informed us; Murshid ibn Yaḥyā al-Madīnī informed us—in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 515 AH; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Fasawī informed us—in 441 AH; al-Ḥasan ibn Rashīq narrated to us; Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Wakīʿī narrated to us; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us; Shurayk, from ʿĀṣim, from Zirr, from ʿAbd Allah, reported that he said: “Whoever does not pray has no religion.” (1)
Those who also died that year were: al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Shāmūkhī (2) in Basra; the senior transmitter of Isfahān, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Dhakwānī (3); the musnid Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Saʿdān (4) in Damascus; and the ḥadith scholar Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣakhr (5) al-Azdī.
411 – Ibn ʿĀbid Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Saʿīd al-Maʿāfirī *
The ḥadith scholar and musnid, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Saʿīd ibn