—a nickname that came from his splitting the horn-plates used in bows (1). He studied the laws of inheritance and arithmetic under al-Khabrī (2) and ʿAbd al-Malik al-Hamadhānī; in those disciplines he had no peer, and he authored several works.
Al-Silafī said: “In inheritance-law and arithmetic he was one of the marvels of the age, and he used to teach both.”
He transmitted hadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī billāh, and among those who heard from him were Ibn Nāṣir, al-Silafī, and the Khaṭīb of Mosul.
He died at the end of 511 AH, a little over seventy years old. May Allah have mercy on him.
228 – Abu Ṭālib al-Yūsufī ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir*
The shaykh, the trustworthy, reliable, learned scholar and transmitter, Abu Ṭālib ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī, al-Yūsufī, son of Abū Bakr.
He was born in the early 430s AH.