Hibat Allah ibn al-Akfānī said: “He was outstanding, reliable, trustworthy, and spent long hours studying the Quran. He used to deliver the sermon for the Egyptians, then abandoned that duty. He died on the third of Ṣafar in the year 470 AH.⦗1⦘
Others said that he passed away in Muḥarram at Ṣaydā.⦗2⦘
ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim told us; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad reported to us in person; ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam informed us; Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ghassānī informed us; Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dūrī informed us; Ḥusayn ibn ʿArafah narrated to us; Qudāmah ibn Shihāb al-Māzinī narrated to us; Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid—on the authority of Wabarah, from Ibn ʿUmar—said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about the purest earnings. He replied: “A man’s work with his own hands, and every honest sale.”⦗3⦘
183 – The Persian, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
The shaykh, ḥadith transmitter, and truthful narrator: Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Abī Masʿūd ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Fārisī, later al-Harawī, the narrator of “The Section of Abū al-Jahm,” the recension of Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī, and the six fascicles of the hadith of Ibn Ṣāʿid from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Shurayḥ al-Zāhid.
Those who transmitted from him include Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī and ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad Bakbarah,