Al-Samʿānī said: I asked the ḥāfiẓ Ismāʿīl about Hayyāj, and he replied, “He was a jurist and an ascetic,” adding further words of praise.
Hayyāj passed away in the year 472 AH. In that same year also died: Muḥammad ibn Abī Masʿūd al-Fārisī (1); Abū ʿAlī al-Makkī al-Shāfiʿī (2); Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ḥassān al-Mulqabādī (3); Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUkbarī, known as al-Nadīm (4); and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh al-Lalkāʾī (5).
195 – Al-Anmāṭī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad *
The shaykh, dependable senior transmitter, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Baghdādī, al-Anmāṭī, al-ʿAttābī, from the ʿAttābiyya quarter; he was the daughter’s son of al-Sukkarī (6).
He narrated from Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhalliṣ.
Al-Khaṭīb (7) said: “I wrote down hadiths from him, and his auditions were sound.”
Among those who narrated from him were Abū Bakr, the judge of the bīmāristān, and Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Samarqandī,