a household distinguished by propriety, chastity, trustworthiness, and integrity.

He was born in 410 AH, and he died on the Day of ʿArafah in 492 AH.

Al-Silafī said: “I asked Shujāʿ about him, and he replied, ‘His audition was sound, he was reliable in his transmission; I heard from him myself.’”

Ibn Sukkara said: “A noble shaykh among the merchants, an honourable draper of discreet means.”

Abū Bakr ibn al-ʿArabī said: “He is trustworthy and upright, and his lineage goes back to Mosul.”

Ismāʿīl ibn al-Samarkandī reported: “I asked him about the year of his birth, and he said, ‘What I most strongly presume is that it was 411 AH.’”

In that same year passed away: the shaykh of the Qur’an reciters Abū al-Barakāt ibn Ṭāwūs; Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Yūsuf al-Yūsufī (1); the leading transmitter of Balkh, Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Khalīlī (2); the ruler of Ghazna (3) Ibrāhīm ibn Masʿūd, son of the conqueror of India, Maḥmūd ibn Subuktigīn; the foremost poet of his era, Abū al-Qāsim Asʿad ibn ʿAlī al-Zawzanī; the jurist Abū Turāb ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yūsuf al-Marāghī (4); Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khilaʿī (5); Abū Aḥmad Faḍlān ibn ʿUthmān al-Qaysī of Isfahān; and the traditionist Makkī ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Rumaylī (6), who was martyred during the capture of Jerusalem.