Ibn Khayrūn said: “He was (1) scrupulous, trustworthy, and outwardly upright (2).
He died in Ramadan of 468 AH; death came to him suddenly while he was in prayer.
193 – al-ʿUkbarī, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad *
The shaykh, scholar, man of letters, historian, and convivial companion: Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿUkbarī, of Persian origin.
He was born in 382 AH (3), into a family of hadith transmitters.
He received hadith from his father Abū Naṣr al-Baqqāl; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, the judge, al-Juʿfī of Kūfa; Ibn Razquwayh; Hilāl ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaffār; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān; and Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Khāqān al-ʿUkbarī—the companion of Ibn Durayd and his earliest shaykh—as well as a number of others.
Among those who narrated from him were Abū Muḥammad Sibt al-Khayyāṭ, his brother al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṭarrāḥ, and Ismāʿīl al-Samarqandī.
Al-Khaṭīb (4) said: “I wrote hadith from him, and he was truthful.” Sibt al-Khayyāṭ remarked: “He inclined toward Shiʿism.”