He passed away in Ramadan of the year 477 AH, at Būshanj.

I read this report aloud to Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAlawī and to Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī on two occasions. Both of them said, “ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar informed us; ʿAbd al-Awwal ibn ʿĪsā informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Shurayḥ informed us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī narrated to us; Suwayd ibn Saʿīd narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Mushir narrated to us, saying:

‘I and Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt heard five hundred hadiths—perhaps even more—from Abān ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh. Later Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt told me, “I saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in a dream; I presented those narrations to him, and he recognized only a few of them—five or six reports—so I stopped narrating from him.”’

Muslim reproduced this account in the Introduction to his Ṣaḥīḥ (1) through the transmission of Suwayd; our chain happens to converge with his at a loftier level, one degree higher.

228 – al-Zaynabī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī *

The shaykh, pious ascetic, noble Ḥāshimī, and musnid of the age: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, son of Imām Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, descendant of the Ocean of Knowledge ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Hāshimī, the ʿAbbāsid—known as al-Zaynabī, from Baghdad.

He was born in Ṣafar of the year 387 AH (2), according to al-Samʿānī.