—the one at whose death the Throne shook (1).

He heard the fascicle (juzʾ) of al-Ḥaffār from its owner, Hilāl ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar.
He likewise received narrations from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān and from Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Tamīmī, who was the last of al-Tamīmī’s students.

Those who transmitted from him include: Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Samarkandī, Abū al-Barakāt ibn al-Anmāṭī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Yūsufī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭūsī—later of Mosul—Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Ḥarrānī, and others. He also granted an ijāza to the ḥāfiẓ al-Silafī, who never realized that Hibat Allāh possessed Juzʾ al-Ḥaffār.

Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “I heard some of my teachers say, ‘The nobleman, the sharīf Hibat Allāh al-Anṣārī, used to charge a sound gold dinar for the narration of Juzʾ al-Ḥaffār.’”

I say: He was born in 402 AH and died on the twenty-first of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 491 AH. He was a man of dignified presence, one of the ceremonial Qurʾān reciters in public processions, and his audition was sound.

In that same year there also died: Ṭirād (2) al-Zaynabī; Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghafār ibn Ishtah (3); Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Rāzī ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (4); and Abū—