I add: He granted an ijāza to Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ, who said (1), “He possessed a thorough command of the points of scholarly disagreement and of disputation.” He was gifted in poetry and letters, and was devout and God-fearing. Because his father had accepted stipends from the ruling authority, he renounced the entire estate he inherited—though it had been considerable—and later experienced need.

I further note that he travelled and visited Baghdad and Yemen. He died in Jeddah after completing the ḥajj, in 493 AH, still in the vigor of middle age (2).

276 – Abū Jaʿfar al-Hāshimī ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad*

The leading scholar, shaykh of the Ḥanbalīs, Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Abī Mūsā ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maʿbad—a descendant of the Prophet’s cousin al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib—was a Hāshimite, ʿAbbāsid, Ḥanbalī, and Baghdadi.

Birth: 411 AH.

He heard ḥadīth from Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bishrān, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥarrānī, Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl, and several others. Those who transmitted from him include Abū Bakr al-Anṣārī and others. He was the senior of Qāḍī Abū Yaʿlā’s pupils.