Among those who died in the same year as Ibn Ḥazm were: the ḥadith master Abū al-Walīd al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Darbandī (1); the jurist Abū al-Qāsim Sirāj ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Sirāj, chief judge of Córdoba (2); the ḥadith scholar ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĀṣim al-Nakhshabī (3); the Arabic grammarian Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlī ibn Barhān of Baghdad (4); the foremost musnid of the age, Abū ’l-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasnūn al-Narsī (5); the traditionist Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Khashshāb al-Naysābūrī (6); and the vizier ʿAmīd al-Mulk Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Kundurī (7).

From Ibn Ḥazm’s poetry:

They told me, “Be on your guard—people are many now,
and the endless talk of mankind is a trial.”
I replied, “Do they reproach me for anything but this:
that I refuse to speak by conjecture, for their conjectures breed strife?
I am devoted to the revealed text; toward anything else I do not lean,
nor do I slacken in championing its cause.
I will not bow to the analogies they advance in religion;
the Qur’an and the Prophetic Sunnah are enough for me.
How cool these words are to my heart and soul,
what joy they bring—if only they would grasp it!
Leave them to gnaw hard stones in their grief;
whoever dies because of his own speech—his speech is shroud enough for him with me.”

100 — The judge Abū Tammām ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī*
The judge of Wāsiṭ, long-lived and a distinguished musnid: Abū Tammām ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan.