His brother Muḥammad died two years earlier, in 494 AH.
Yaḥyā ibn Manda said: “He narrated from Ibn Māshādha, al-Faḍl ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Shahrayār, Abū Sahl al-Ṣaffār, and—most frequently—from Abū Nuʿaym. He was devoted to Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī and used to tutor children.”
Among those who died in 496 AH were: the Iraqi Qur’an-reciter Abū Ṭāhir ibn Siwār (1); Abū Saʿd al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī al-Fānīdhī; Abū Bakr Khāzim ibn Muḥammad al-Qurṭubī—who was of weak standing; Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn Najāḥ al-Umawī, their client, the reciter; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Dawsh al-Shāṭibī; Abū al-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Zayd al-Bayyāz; Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn al-Mundhir ibn Ṭaybān; the ḥadith scholar Abū Yāsir ibn Kādash; and Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ḍabbī al-Fursānī.
115 – al-Rabʿī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allah *
The shaykh, jurist, scholar, and transmitter: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUraybah al-Rabʿī, a Baghdadi Shāfiʿī.
He said, “I was born in 414 AH.”
He heard ḥadith from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad al-Bazzār, Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, and Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bishrān. He studied law under the judge Abū al-Ṭayyib and under the Chief of Judges al-Māwardī, and he received