He passed away in Rajab, 446 AH. The deputy governor of Damascus escorted his bier; the funeral was thronged, the city itself was closed for him, and he was the most respected figure of his day.
Among those who died at the same time were: Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ubay al-Furātī; ʿAlī ibn al-Faḍl ibn al-Furāt, the imam of the Great Mosque of Damascus; and Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Labbān, the dialectician.
His brother:
439 – Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tamīmī
The upright, trustworthy, and distinguished Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr al-Tamīmī.
He also received narrations from Yūsuf al-Mayanajī and Ibn Zabr, and he and his brother studied together.
Those who narrated from him were: al-Kattānī, Najā the perfumer, Sahl ibn Bishr, Abū Ṭāhir al-Ḥinnāʾī, and al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd the perfumer.
Al-Kattānī said, “He was reliable, trustworthy, possessed fine source manuscripts; I never saw anyone better than him. His audition and that of his brother were both certified in their father’s own handwriting, and his funeral was magnificent.”
He died in Shaʿbān, 443 AH.
440 – al-Tanūkhī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Muḥassin ibn ʿAlī
The judge, scholar, and long-lived Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī, son of the judge Abū ʿAlī