He died in Rabiʿ al-Awwal of 491 AH. He had traced the Major Sunan of al-Nasaʾi, secured a complete copy of it, and heard its recitation in Egypt.
89 – Ibn Yusuf, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Baghdādī
The shaykh, the eminent scholar, the reliable authority and leading figure: Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī.
He was born in 411 AH.
He studied under Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥurfī, ʿUthmān ibn Dust, Abū ʿAlī ibn Shadhān, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Bishrān and their circle in Baghdad; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Sakhr and Abū Naṣr al-Sijzī in Mecca; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥimmaṣah al-Ḥarrānī in Egypt; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Tarjumān in Ramla; and several others.
Those who narrated from him include his sons ʿAbd Allāh, the ḥadith master ʿAbd al-Khāliq, and ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; the ḥadith scholar Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir; Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Baṭṭī; Shuhdah the scribe; ʿAtīq ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ṣaylāʾ; the preacher Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭūsī; and many others.
Ibn Nāṣir said, “He was righteous and trustworthy.”
Al-Samʿānī remarked, “A venerable shaykh, reliable and virtuous, sound in his way and excellent in conduct. He travelled widely and even reached the Maghrib.”
His son ʿAbd al-Khāliq said, “My brother told me, ‘I saw in a dream…’