Ibn al-Najjār added: “He was appointed judge of Wāsiṭ in 485 AH, removed from office in 513, and thereafter occupied himself continually with teaching (1) in Wāsiṭ. He was a venerable, devout imām who feared no blame when acting for the sake of Allah.
The scholars of Wāsiṭ transmitted from him, and he was regarded as one of the exceptionally intelligent.
He died in Muḥarram 528 AH. The Damascene jurist Abū Saʿd ibn Abī ʿAsrūn (2) studied law under him.
In that same year there also passed away: the exemplar and ascetic Abū al-Wafāʾ Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Shīrāzī; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥasan ibn Salmawayh, the Ṣūfī of Nīshāpūr; the physician-philosopher Umayya ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī al-Ṣalt al-Dānī (3); Abū al-Ḥusayn Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭarāwah, the foremost grammarian of his day; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Khalaf ibn al-Bādish, the Qurʾān reciter; and Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Wāsiṭī.
- Ibn Qiblayl – Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Khalaf
The senior Mālikī scholar: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Khalaf ibn Qiblayl (4) al-Hamadhānī, the Granadan jurist.