He died in the closing days of 467 AH. Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn, however, said that his death occurred at the beginning of Jumādā al-Ūlā in 468.
122 – al-Kattānī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, accomplished scholar, honest narrator, and muhaddith of Damascus—Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān (1) al-Tamīmī, al-Dimashqī, known as al-Kattānī, the Ṣūfī.
He was born in 389 AH.
He received ḥadith from Tammām ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī, Ṣadaqah ibn al-Dalam, Abū Naṣr ibn Hārūn, Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Naṣr, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qaṭṭān, and many others in Damascus; from Aḥmad and Muḥammad, the two sons of al-Ṣayyāḥ (2), in Balad (3); from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥammāmī, ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd al-Razzāz, Muḥammad ibn al-Rūzbahān, and Abū al-Qāsim
(*) al-Ikmal 7/187; al-Ansab 10/353; Tarikh Ibn Asakir 10/174/1–175/1; al-Muntazam 8/288; al-Lubab 3/83–84; al-Kamil fi al-tarikh 10/93; Tadhkirat al-huffaz 3/1170–1171; al-Ibar 3/261; Duwal al-Islam 1/275; al-Bidaya wa al-nihaya 12/109; Tabsir al-muntabih 3/1206; al-Nujum al-zahira 5/96; Tabaqat al-huffaz 439; Kashf al-zunun 2019; Shadharat al-dhahab 3/325.
Al-Kattani: the nisba begins with a kaf carrying a fat ha and has a doubled open ta; in al-Bidaya it was misread as al-Kinani (with a nun).
(1) Al-Ikmal, al-Ansab, and al-Muntazam read “Salman,” whereas al-Lubab has “Sulwan.”
(2) The correct spelling uses sad and ya, as in al-Ikmal 5/162. The persons meant are Abu Mansur Muhammad and Abu Abd Allah Ahmad, sons of al-Husayn b. Sahl b. Khalifa, both known as the “sons of al-Siyyah.” In Tadhkirat al-huffaz 3/1170 the name was corrupted to “al-Sabah” (with a ba). See also Tabsir al-muntabih 3/829.
(3) Muʿjam al-buldan records the place-name as Bald; some say Balt with a ta. Hamza adds that its Persian name is Shahrabad, an ancient town on the Tigris above Mosul. In Tadhkirat al-huffaz the word was further distorted to Balda.