Ibn al-Faʿūs al-Baghdādī, the cobbler, was a disciple of the noble Abū Jaʿfar ibn Abī Mūsā al-Ḥanbalī.

He transmitted hadith from al-Qāḍī Abū Yaʿlā and Abū Manṣūr al-ʿAṭṭār.
Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Muʿammar al-Anṣārī and Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir.
On Fridays he would read hadith to the people without citing the chain of transmission, and he enjoyed exceptional acceptance because of his rectitude and sincerity.

Ibn al-Jawzī states: “He died on the nineteenth of Shawwāl in the year 521 AH. The markets were closed, the masses cried out in defence of the sunnah and in cursing the people of innovation, and he was buried near Imām Aḥmad.”

It was also said that he used to refrain from narration out of humility—may Allah have mercy on him.
He passed away a little past seventy years of age.

Al-Samʿānī said: “I heard Abū al-Qāsim in Damascus say, ‘The people of Baghdad hold him in reverence.’”
Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Samarqandī related that Ibn al-Khāḍibah would call Ibn al-Faʿūs “al-Ḥajarī” (“the Stone-man”) because he asserted that the Black Stone is—literally—the right hand of Allah.

His scribe comments: “Such abuse is unfitting toward a righteous man. At most it is a disagreement over the wording of an expression that carries no inherent danger. It is like our saying, ‘the House of Allah’ in a real sense, ‘the she-camel of Allah’ in a real sense, or ‘the Spirit of Allah, the son of Mary,’ all of which are honorific genitives of ennoblement. No rational person would claim that these are genitives of description; the context makes plain that they are genitives of ownership, not of attribute. That is what is meant by the report, ‘Whoever shakes hands with it is as though he had shaken hands with Allah,’ meaning that it stands in the position of