Among Abū ʿUmar’s other writings are: al-Kāfī fī Madhhab Mālik (1), in fifteen volumes; al-Iktifāʾ fī Qirāʾat Nāfiʿ wa Abī ʿAmr; al-Taqaṣṣī fī Ikhtiṣār al-Muwaṭṭaʾ; al-Inbāh ʿan Qabāʾil al-Ruwāt; al-Intiqāʾ li-Madhāhib al-Thalāthah al-ʿUlamāʾ—Mālik, Abū Ḥanīfah and al-Shāfiʿī; al-Bayān fī Tilāwat al-Qurʾān; al-Ajwibah al-Mawʿibah (Extensive Answers); al-Kunā (Patronymics); al-Maghāzī (The Military Expeditions); al-Qaṣd wa-l-Umam fī Nasab al-ʿArab wa-l-ʿAjam (The Measured Path and the Nations on the Lineage of Arabs and non-Arabs); al-Shawāhid fī Ithbāt Khabar al-Wāḥid (Corroborative Proofs for Establishing a Lone-Narrator Report); al-Inṣāf fī Asmāʾ Allāh (Equity in the Divine Names); al-Farāʾiḍ (The Laws of Inheritance); and Ashʿār Abī al-ʿAtāhiyah (2). He lived for ninety-five years.

Abū Dāwūd the Qurʾān-reciter said, “Abū ʿUmar died on the night preceding Friday, the last day of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir in the year 463 AH, having completed ninety-five years and five days—may Allah have mercy on him.”

I say: He was the hadith master of the Maghrib in his time.

In that same year there also died: the hadith master of the East, Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb (3), and the leading transmitter of Nīshāpūr, Abū