Abu al-Nadr al-Fami said, “Shaykh al-Islam passed away in Dhu al-Hijjah of the year 481 AH, at the age of eighty-four years and some months.”⦗1⦘
In that same year the following scholars also died: the musnid of Isfahan, Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad b. al-Hasan Ibn Majah al-Abhari⦗2⦘; the musnid of Nishapur, Abu ʿAmr ʿUthman b. Muhammad b. ʿUbayd Allah al-Mahmi al-Muzakki⦗3⦘; and the transmitter of the Sunan of al-Tirmidhi, Abu Bakr Ahmad b. ʿAbd al-Samad al-Ghuraji⦗4⦘.
ʿAli b. Ahmad al-Husayni narrated to us; ʿAli b. Abi Bakr b. Ruzbah in Baghdad narrated to us; and more than one person wrote to me—among them Ibrahim b. ʿAli—saying:
Muhammad b. Abi al-Fath, Zakariyya al-ʿUlabi, and Ibn Sayla narrated to us, saying:
Abu al-Waqt ʿAbd al-Awwal b. ʿIsa narrated to us; Abu Ismaʿil ʿAbd Allah b. Muhammad narrated to us; Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Mansur b. al-Husayn narrated to me and said, “This is the loftiest chain I possess.” He related:
Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Kathir b. Daysm—Abu Saʿid of Herat—narrated to us; Ahmad b. al-Miqdam narrated to us; al-Fadl b. Dukayn narrated to us; Salamah b. Wardān narrated to us.
Likewise, Hasan b. ʿAli, Muhammad b. Qaymaz al-Daqiqi, and a group reported to us, saying:
ʿAbd Allah b. ʿUmar al-Latti narrated to us; Abu al-Waqt narrated to us; Abu Ismaʿil narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Jabbar b. al-Jarrah narrated to us; Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Mahbub narrated to us; Abu ʿIsa al-Tirmidhi narrated to us; ʿUqbah b. Mukram narrated to us; Ibn Abi Fudayk narrated to us; Salamah b. Wardān al-Laythi informed me, from Anas b. Malik,
that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
“Whoever gives up lying even though falsehood is at his disposal, a house will be built for him in…"