He passed away in Rabiʿ al-Awwal of the year 535 AH, at a little over ninety years of age—may Allah have mercy upon him.

As for the Ibn al-Saqqāʾ already mentioned, Ibn al-Najjār says: I heard ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, the Qurʾān-reciter, relate:

“Ibn al-Saqqāʾ had been an accomplished Qurʾān teacher. Someone who saw him in Constantinople told me that he found him ill, lying on a bench. I asked him, ‘Does the Qurʾān still remain in your memory?’ He replied, ‘I remember of it nothing except a single verse: “Perhaps those who disbelieved will wish that they had been Muslims” (Al-Hijr: 3); everything else I have forgotten.’ (1)

42 – Al-Qazzāz, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Shaybānī
The eminent shaykh, the reliable transmitter, Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of the ḥadith scholar Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ḥasan ibn Manāzil (2) ibn Zurayq al-Shaybānī, a Baghdadi from the Ḥarīm quarter, known as al-Qazzāz. (3)

He is the one through whom (Tārīkh al-Khaṭīb) was transmitted, except for the thirty-sixth fascicle, which he missed because of his mother’s death.

He heard ḥadiths from Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima, Abū ʿAlī ibn Wishāḥ, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī bi-llāh, and a number of others.

He compiled a mashyakha (a catalogue of his shaykhs).