Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkara said: Abū al-Walīd passed away in al-Mariyya on the nineteenth of Rajab in the year four hundred and seventy-four (1) AH. He was seventy-one years old, plus a few months, for he had been born in Dhu al-Ḥijjah of the year four hundred and three AH.
Those who died that same year included: the Iraqi ḥadith transmitter Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Busrī al-Bundār (2); the leading Mālikī scholar in Sabta, Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-ʿAjūz al-Kutāmī (3); the muhaddith of Naysābūr, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muzakkī (4); and the long-lived shaykh of Baghdad, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allah ibn Ṣadaqa al-Dabbās (5).
He used to relate that the autograph manuscripts he had received from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Samʿūn and al-Mukhlis were lost in the looting.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm the Qurʾān-reciter informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us in the year 35; Abū al-Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl ibn Makkī al-Zuhri informed us—this being read to him—in the year (572); Abū Bakr al-Fihri informed us; Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī informed us; Yūnus ibn ʿAbd Allah the judge informed us; Abū ʿĪsā Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allah informed us; from his father’s uncle, ʿUbayd Allah ibn (6) Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā; from his father; from Mālik; from Rabīʿah ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; from Anas, who said that he heard him say:
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was neither conspicuously tall nor short, and he was not of a chalk-white complexion…"