People vied with one another to purchase his workmanship, and he amassed a considerable fortune. He also composed fine poetry (1), though it was tinged with licentious and frivolous themes. He rearranged Ibn al-Ḥajjāj’s dīwān into one hundred and forty chapters and entitled it “Pearl of the Crown in the Poetry of Ibn Ḥajjāj.” It was further said that he excelled in medicine and philosophy. Ibn al-Najjār stated: “He was the unrivalled man of his time, unique in his age in the science of astronomy; he died of paralysis in 534 AH (2).”

31 – Ibn Biṭrīq, Abū al-Qāsim Yaḥyā ibn Biṭrīq al-Ṭarsūsī *
The ḥadith transmitter and Qur’an reciter Abū al-Qāsim Yaḥyā ibn Biṭrīq al-Ṭarsūsī—later known as al-Dimashqī.
Ibn ʿAsākir said: “His status is mastūr, and he was a memoriser of the Qur’an. He heard ḥadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Makkī and from Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb. He passed away in Ramadan of the year 534 AH.”
I (the author) add: Those who transmitted from him include Ibn ʿAsākir, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Asad, al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥāfiẓ, and others.