Ibn Nāṣir said, “He passed away on the first of Muḥarram in the year 486 AH, in the district of al-Hakkāriyya, a range of mountains situated above Mosul.”
I (the author) add: He lived for seventy-seven years, produced several works, and devoted himself to the Prophetic tradition—may Allah bless him and grant him peace.
- al-ʿUmayrī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad— the shaykh, the imam, the exemplar, the ascetic, the devout worshipper. His full lineage is Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmayr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmayr al-ʿUmayrī (1), al-Harawī.
He was born in 398 AH, and the first hadith he heard was in 407 AH.
He learned from his father, who narrated on the authority of al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl al-Naḍrawī (2).
He also received hadith from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Khwārazmī, ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar al-Quhanduzī (3), ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Dīnārī, Ḍimām ibn Muḥammad al-Shaʿrānī, and a number of scholars in Herat; from the judge Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī in Nīshāpūr; from Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān and his peers in Baghdad; and from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣanʿānī in Mecca.