Shayrawayh said, “He was reliable and upright; the senior authorities took ḥadiths from him.”
Al-Silafī added, “I heard his son Abū Ṭāhir say, ‘My father passed away in the year 454 AH.’ ”
I say: he was still narrating in 453 AH.
Yes, and in that same year (1) died: the erudite Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Riḍwān al-Miṣrī, the philosopher and author of works on medicine and mathematics (2); the leading Qur’an reciter of Egypt, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Nafīs (3), who was a little over ninety years old; the ruler of Mardin, Mayyāfāriqīn, and the surrounding districts, Naṣr al-Dawlah Aḥmad ibn Marwān al-Kurdī (4), whose reign lasted fifty-one years; Abū Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad al-Baqqāl al-Iṣbahānī (5), already mentioned; the jurist ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Jābir al-Tinnīsī, transmitter of the Fulayḥ collection; the benefactor who endowed the khānqāh known as Dār ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Shaykh Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Sulamī al-Sumaysāṭī (6); Abū Ṭāhir ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Zādah al-Khirāqī, the broker, one of the students of Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ (7); and the scholar Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭabarī, teacher of the Qur’an reciter al-Khabbāzī (8).