He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 469 AH, at a little over eighty years of age, and his audition was sound—may Allah have mercy on him.
Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, the jurist in Baalbek, informed us; he said: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad the judge informed us in the year 626 AH; he said: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan, the ḥāfiẓ, dictated to us in the year (551) at Baalbek; he said: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm the preacher informed us; he said: Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad informed us; he said: my grandfather informed us; he said: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Sāmarī informed us; he said: Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Raqqī recited to me:
Not at every moment or season
Do the avenues of kindness appear;
So when they open, hasten to seize them,
Lest the chance be lost and disappear.
212 – Abū Ṣāliḥ the Muezzin, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAlī *
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, ascetic, and senior transmitter of Khurasan: Abū Ṣāliḥ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Bakr al-Naysābūrī, the Sufi, renowned for giving the call to prayer.
His earliest audition was in 399 AH. He heard from Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfaraʾīnī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAlawī, Abū Ṭāhir ibn Maḥmish, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim, Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Muhallabī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Iṣfahānī, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, Abū Zakariyyā al-Muzakkī, and others of their rank.
He also heard from: Ḥamzah ibn