in mid-Shaʿbān of 455(1) AH; he was a little over seventy years old.
68 – Al-Hinnāʾī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm *
The shaykh, learned scholar, and upright authority Abū al-Qāsim(2) al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥusayn, the Damascene, known as al-Hinnāʾī; compiler of the ten Hinnāʾī fascicles (ajzāʾ) that the ḥadith master ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Nakhsabī selected for him.
He narrated from: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī, al-Ḥasan ibn Durustawayh, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Hinnāʾī, Tammām ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qaṭṭān, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jahḍam, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Saʿd al-Sammān, Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Makkī al-Ramlī, Abū Naṣr ibn Mākūlā, Sahl ibn Bishr, ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAlī al-Kilābī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Nasīb, and his two sons, Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad and Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Also among his pupils were Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Mawāzīnī, Ṭāhir ibn Sahl al-Isfarāʾīnī, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥamzah, Hibat Allāh ibn al-Akfānī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd, Thaʿlab ibn Jaʿfar al-Sarrāj, and many others.
He was the foremost ḥadith authority of the city in his day.
Al-Nasīb(3) said: “I asked the reliable, devout, and eminent shaykh, Abū al-Qāsim…"