He was also granted authorization by ʿAlī ibn Munīr al-Khallāl, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣakhr, and a group of others. Al-Silafī said, “He was trustworthy, his master copies were sound, most of them in the hand of Ibn Baqāʾ and read aloud to him.”
Those who narrated from him include al-Silafī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Raḥabī, ʿUshayr ibn ʿAlī al-Mazāriʿ, ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allāh al-Kāmilī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Barrī the grammarian, Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-Būṣīrī, and others. He passed away in Dhū al-Qaʿda, 517 AH.
279 – Ibn al-Khayyāṭ, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī *
The foremost poet of his age, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ṣadaqa al-Taghlibī, the Damascene scribe, was among the leading men of letters. His poetry sits at the pinnacle, and his Dīwān is widely known. He lived for sixty-seven years and died in 517 AH.
(1) Among the author’s verified autograph copies is the Musnad of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, compiled by Abu Bakr Ahmad b. Ali b. Saʿid al-Umawi al-Marwazi (d. 292 AH/905 CE). The manuscript is kept in the Zahiriya Library, Damascus, within miscellany no. 56, fols. 62–106. I have edited the text, traced its hadith transmissions, and published it in Damascus in 1390 AH/1970 CE.
(*) Main biographical sources: Ibn al-Qalani, Tarikh, p. 234; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh Dimashq, 2:101/2–102/1; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Aʿyan, 1:145–147; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 4:228/1–229/1, and al-ʿIbar, 4:39–40; Ibn al-Wardi, Tatimmat al-Mukhtasar, 2:51–52; al-Safadi, al-Wafi bil-Wafayat, 8:67–70; ʿUyun al-Tawarikh, 13:417; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 12:193–194; al-Nujum al-Zahira, 5:226; Ibn ʿImad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 4:54–58; Muntakhabat al-Tawarikh, p. 476; Tahdhib Ibn ʿAsakir, 2:70–71; Majallat al-Majmaʿ, 34:127–133; al-Shuʿaraʾ al-Shamiyyun, pp. 209–244. His diwan was printed in Damascus, edited by Khalil Mardam, in 1958.