eighty-nine years old. His aforementioned grandson died in 570 AH, or perhaps a little later, sometime in the nineties.
We read before ʿĪsā ibn Yaḥyā; Mansūr ibn Sanad informed you; Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī told us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, the ḥāfiẓ, narrated to us; ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, the preacher, related; Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl reported; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rustah transmitted; Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd narrated; Zāfir ibn Sulaymān, from al-Mustalim ibn Saʿīd, from al-Ḥakam ibn Abān, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās:
‘The Prophet ﷺ said, “There is no dutiful child who looks at his parents with a gaze of mercy without Allah granting him, for every such look, the reward of an accepted pilgrimage.” It was asked, “Even if he looks at them one hundred times a day (1)?” He replied, “Yes, for Allah is purer and more generous (2).”’
This report is munkar (unreliable).
In that same year there also died: the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Bardānī; the ḥadith scholar Abū Bakr, the grandson of Ibn Mardawayh; the Sultan Barkyāruq ibn Malikshāh (3); Thābit ibn Bundār al-Baqqāl (4); the jurist of the Holy Sanctuary, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭabarī (5); the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Ghassānī; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Khalaf al-ʿAbsī of Córdoba (6); and Fayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad.