Al-Silafī said, “I asked al-Muʾtamin al-Sājī about ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Nakhshabī, and he replied, ‘The leading ḥuffāẓ—men like Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣūrī—commended him highly and approved of his understanding.’

In Egypt and the surrounding lands he secured a solid chain of transmission. (1)

The ḥadith master Yaḥyā ibn Manda remarked, ‘He was the unrivalled man of his time in memorization and precision; in our era we have seen no one to match him in retention. His handwriting was neat, he wrote and read swiftly, and his manners were exemplary.’ He then said, ‘He died in Nakhshab in 457 AH.’ (2)

The ḥadith master Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir reported, ‘He passed away in Nakhshab in 456 AH.’ (3)

Another opinion is that he died in Samarqand.

Yaḥyā ibn Manda also said, ‘He visited us in 433 AH; the judge al-Khuṭabī struck him because of his position regarding Imām Abū Ḥanīfa, and I myself saw the marks of the beating on his back. He died in Jumādā al-Ākhira of the year seven. He used to lodge in our house and spend the night with my father.’ (4)

136 – al-Ḥaskānī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad *
The imam, accomplished hadith scholar, and judge: Abū al-Qāsim ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh