a harshness of character and an unwarranted surliness of temperament.
I say: He heard ḥadith from Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī al-Fārisī, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Bayyiʿ, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Razqūyah, and ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʿItra ⦗1⦘. He was upright, devout, and had attended many sessions of transmission.
Those who narrated from him include Makkī al-Rumaylī, Abū Saʿd ibn al-Baghdādī, Abū Naṣr al-Ghāzī, Ismāʿīl ibn al-Samarqandī, Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī, Aḥmad ibn Qafarjal, Muḥammad ibn al-Mādiḥ, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Kharrāz, and others.
Ibn Sukkarah said: “Al-Ḥumaydī used to urge me to read the copy of the Musnad of Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah that he possessed, saying, ‘If Yaʿqūb’s discourse were posted on the doors of the bathhouses it would still be incumbent to read it—so how much more when it is a Musnad unparalleled in its kind!’”
The ḥāfiẓ Shujāʿ al-Dhuhli said: He died in 488 AH ⦗2⦘.
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Bādīs ibn Ḥabūs* ibn Māksā ⦗3⦘ ibn Bulukkīn ⦗4⦘ ibn Zīrī ibn Manād al-Ṣanhājī
was one of the commanders