—seven of them on Sūrah al-Fātiḥah.

He also kept a fascicle from the ḥadith collection of Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, transmitted from al-Anṣārī. I read a portion of it to him, through al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār, from a man who narrated it from him. I then recited it to the two sons of our teacher, the Qurʾān-reciter Ibn Siwār, and for them I likewise read a fascicle from the ḥadiths of al-Maḥāmilī—which he had heard in 399 AH, when he was about four years old.

He would not give the salām to any of the salaf, and he used to say to us, “Leave, so that the angels may enter.”(1)

It is said that he was born in 393 AH.

Ibn Nāṣir said, “He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 488 AH.”(2)

By Allah’s help and His enabling grace, the eighteenth volume of Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ is now complete. It will be followed by the nineteenth volume, which opens with the biography of al-Dabbās Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Baghawī.