al-Silafī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Yūsufī, Shuhda the Scribe, Abū al-Fath ibn Shātīl, and others; he was one of the righteous.
Al-Silafī said, “No one besides him transmitted anything to us from al-Sukkari.”
I add: he was born in 409 AH, or thereabouts.
He died in Jumādā al-Ākhira, 497 AH.
In that same year there also died: the ruler of Damascus, Sultan Shams al-Mulūk Abū Naṣr Duqāq, son of the king Tāj al-Dawla Tutush (1), son of the great Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan. His reign after his father lasted ten years, and he was buried in the Ṭawāwīs khānqāh.
In that year there likewise passed away: Abū Yāsir Aḥmad ibn Bundār the grocer; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭuraythīthī (2); the judge Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamza al-Thaqafī al-Kūfī; the ascetic hadith scholar Abū al-Faraj Ismāʿīl ibn “the exemplar” Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Qūmisānī at Hamadhān; the great preacher, the amir Ardashīr al-ʿUbādī—he had squandered his fortune (3); Ṭāhir ibn Asad al-Shīrāzī the cook; the eloquent secretary Abū Saʿd al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Ḥasan ibn al-Mawṣalāyā (4); Abū al-Khaṭṭāb ibn al-Jarrāḥ; ʿĪsā ibn Abī Dharr al-Harawī (5); Abū Muṭīʿ al-Madani; Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj, the jurist known as al-Ṭallāʿī (6); and Abū al-Muṭarrif ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (7) al-Shaʿbī of Málaga.