He set out in the year 453 AH, spending several years touring Fars and Khuzestan. In his own hand he copied roughly one thousand fascicles, and in Baghdad he listened to Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī and scholars of his rank.

Those who narrated from him include: his son, the ḥadith master ʿAbd al-Ghāfir; his daughter Umm Salamah; ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣaffār; Abū Bakr al-Taftāzānī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Furāwī; ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Zāhir; Abū Shujāʿ al-Bisṭāmī; and a number of others.

Al-Samʿānī said, “He was virtuous and learned, and never wearied of listening to hadith and pursuing knowledge.”

I say: He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 504 AH, at a little over eighty years of age.

In that same year there also passed away: the Shāfiʿī shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ilkiyā al-Harrāsī (1); ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn al-Ghumr al-Kilābī; Abū Yaʿlā Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī, brother of Ṭirād; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baladī al-Nasafī; and the Qur’an reciter of Egypt, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Khāshshāb.

164 – Ibn Bādīs, Abū Yaḥyā Tamīm ibn al-Muʿizz ibn Bādīs

The ruler of Ifrīqiya, the sultan, Abū Yaḥyā Tamīm ibn al-Muʿizz ibn Bādīs ibn