and that you place your tongue in my mouth.’ He added, ‘for with that tongue you have frequently recited the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (1) ﷺ.’

Al-Samʿānī said: The funeral prayer was offered for him at daybreak, and because of the crowd they did not reach the cemetery with the body until after midday. I remember that it was during Ramadan of the year 530 AH. We bore his bier on our shoulders to the grave of Muslim in order to finish reading the Ṣaḥīḥ there. When the reader concluded the book, the shaykh wept, supplicated, and moved the attendees to tears, saying, ‘Perhaps this book will never again be read to me after today.’

He passed away, may Allah have mercy on him, on the twenty-first of Shawwāl, and was buried beside the Imām of the Imāms, Ibn Khuzaymah.

It was said that he held more than one thousand dictation sessions.

I (the author) say: Scholars extracted for him a collection of six-transmitter chains which we ourselves heard, as well as one hundred elevated hadiths preserved by the students of Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim; he also possessed forty narrations of equal rank and other similar material.

363 – Ibn Āsata, Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn al-Khaḍir

He was an imam, a scholar. His full name is Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn Āsata, and his personal name was al-Khaḍir ibn ʿAlī al-Marātibī. An expert in the laws of inheritance, he was a disciple of Abū Ḥakīm al-Khabrī.

He heard hadith from ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī bi-llāh, Ibn al-Naqqūr, and others. He authored works on inheritance law and was a righteous, devout man.

Among those who transmitted from him were Hibat Allah ibn al-Hasan al-Sibt and a number of others.

He lived for 85 years and died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 530 AH ﵀.