Ibn al-Fākher said, “He passed away in Shawwāl, 530 AH.
During that same year the following also died: the ruler of al-Ḥillah, Tāj al-Mulūk Badrān ibn Ṣadaqah al-Asadī al-Mazīdī, the poet (1); the ruler of Jaʿbar, Badrān ibn Mālik ibn Sālim al-ʿUqaylī (2); Zayn al-Qudāh Sulṭān, son of the judge Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Qurashī, in Damascus; ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿĪsā al-Saraqusṭī, who had memorised Sahih al-Bukhārī and Sunan Abī Dāwūd; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Muwaḥḥid, the agent, known as Ibn al-Baqshalām; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Qubays al-Mālikī; Abū Sahl Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿdawayh al-Iṣfahānī; the exemplar Muḥammad ibn Ḥammūyah al-Juwaynī (3); the preacher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥabīb al-ʿĀmirī; al-Furāwī; and Ibn Abī Dharr al-Ṣāliḥānī (4).
372 – al-Mizrifi, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī – the imam and master of the Qur’an reciters, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī.
…he later added, in the margins, the names of several persons who were not mentioned in the original petition; al-Samarqandi therefore had him jailed and refused to let him resume his work. He then abandoned hadith study, made a living by al-kudiyya (begging), and dropped all pretence of decorum: he would turn up uninvited at celebrations and funerals, recite hadiths, and content himself with the few coins people gave him.
(1) His biography appeared above, no. 360.
(2) Jaʿbar is a fortress on the Euphrates between Balis and Raqqa, near Siffin; Muʿjam al-Buldan, 2 / 142.
(3) His biography appeared above, no. 347.
(4) His biography appeared above, no. 334.
(*) Principal sources: al-Muntazam, 10 / 33–34; Ibn al-Jawzi, Mashyakhat Ibn al-Jawzi, 59–61; Muʿjam al-Buldan, 5 / 121; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 4 : 276 / 1; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 4 / 72–73; Maʿrifat al-Qurraʾ al-Kibar, 1 / 391–392; Tabaqat al-Qurraʾ, 2 / 131; al-Nujūm al-Zahira, 5 / 251; Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 4 / 81–82.
The consonant mīm is vowelled with kasra in the base manuscript, and the same reading appears in al-Mushtabih in the author’s own hand. Al-Samʿani, Ibn Nuqtah and others, however, state that it should be with fatḥa, because the nisba refers to al-Marzaqa, a large village near Baghdad on the road to Mosul.