Ibn Rabīʿah passed away in Safar of the year 440 AH, and Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Hāshim al-Muqriʾ led the funeral prayer for him.
424 – al-Sūrī Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Shāmī *
The imam, ḥadīth master, accomplished scholar, unique authority and hujja, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī (1) ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ruḥaym (2) al-Shāmī, al-Sāḥilī, al-Sūrī—one of the foremost figures.
He himself stated that he was born in either 376 AH or 377 AH.
He studied under: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jumayʿ as-Ṣaydāwī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad az-Zarāfī; Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Kāmil al-Aṭrābulusī; ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd al-Miṣrī; Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Kalāʿī; Abū Naṣr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Bundār; and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Naḥḥās.
He kept close company with the ḥadīth master ʿAbd al-Ghanī and completed his training under him. Later he traveled to Baghdad, where he met the remaining senior scholars and heard from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad (the booklet of Ibn ʿArafah), Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥah al-Munqī, Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, Abū Bakr al-Barqānī, ʿUthmān ibn Dūst, and many others, transmitting prolifically.
Those who narrated from him include his teacher, the ḥadīth master ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, and the qāḍī.