I have not found any record of his death; however, he was still narrating in the year 500 AH, after which no further news of him reached us.

146 – Ibn Abī al-Ṣaqr, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥasan

He was the erudite scholar Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Ṣaqr al-Wāsiṭī, a professional scribe and noted poet.

He ranked among the leading Shāfiʿī jurists. At the Niẓāmiyya he took down the doctrine from Shaykh Abū Isḥāq, compiling three notebooks of his teachings.

He transmitted ḥadith from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Hārūn al-Qaṭṭān and ʿĪsā ibn Khalaf al-Andalusī, and he studied literature with Abū Ghālib Ibn al-Khālah and Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Khaishī the grammarian.

While in Baghdad he heard from Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb; he then returned to his own town, later revisiting Baghdad to teach and relate traditions there.

Among those who reported from him were Ibn Nāṣir, Ibn al-Jawāliqī, Kathīr ibn Samāliq, and al-Silafī.

Shujāʿ al-Dhuhlī said, “There is nothing objectionable about him,” and a collection of his poetry has been printed (1).