He passed away in Marw al-Rūdh (1), a city of Khurāsān, in the month of Shawwāl, 516 AH. He was buried beside his teacher al-Qāḍī Ḥusayn, having lived a little over seventy years.
His brother—the distinguished jurisconsult Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Masʿūd ibn al-Farrāʾ—died in 529 AH at the age of seventy-one. He related ḥadīth from Abū Bakr ibn Khalaf the littérateur and from others.
ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm the littérateur, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿUlwān the judge, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿd, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAmīrah, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Qudāmī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūrī, and Khadījah bint ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (2) informed us, saying:
Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Bahrām the Sufi informed us in 622 AH; Muḥammad ibn Asʿad the jurist informed us in 567 AH; Muḥyī al-Sunnah Ḥusayn ibn Masʿūd informed us; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī informed us; Zāhir ibn Aḥmad the jurist informed us; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad informed us; Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī informed us, from Mālik, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd,