Tāj al-Ḥilya wa-Sirāj al-Bughya fī Maʿrifat Asānīd al-Muwaṭṭaʾ (The Crown of Embellishment and Lamp of Aspiration: an exposition of the chains of the Muwaṭṭaʾ); al-Bayān ʿammā fī Kitāb Abī Naṣr al-Kalābādhī (1) mina al-Nuqṣān (A Clarification of the Omissions in the Book of Abū Naṣr al-Kalābādhī); and al-Minhāj fī Rijāl Muslim (The Pathway to the Narrators of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim). I attended a number of his hadith gatherings.
He passed away in Ṣafar of the year 522 AH, at the age of seventy-eight.
In that same year died: the Iraqi vizier Jalāl al-Dīn Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Ṣadaqa, vizier to al-Mustarshid (2); the lord of Damascus, the atabeg Ṭughtakīn Ẓahīr al-Dīn, father of Tāj al-Mulūk Burī (3); the musnid Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Kurāʿī in Marw (4); and Ibrāhīm ibn Sahl al-Naysābūrī al-Masjidī.
332 – al-ʿAbdarī, Abū ʿĀmir Muḥammad ibn Saʿdūn ibn Murajja*
The shaykh, imām, ḥāfiẓ, critic, and unrivalled authority: Abū ʿĀmir Muḥammad ibn Saʿdūn ibn Murajja ibn Saʿdūn al-Qurashī, al-ʿAbdarī, from Mallorca, a Maghribī Ẓāhirī who settled in Baghdad.
Birth: Córdoba. He was an ocean of learning, but he held a measure of anthropomorphism—may Allah grant us safety (5).