He was born in 465 AH, in Baghdad.
He heard ḥadīth from Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī al-Anmāṭī, ʿAlī ibn al-Busrī, Abū Naṣr al-Zaynabī, Rizq Allāh, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include his two sons ʿAbd al-Raḥīm and ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir (1), al-Samʿānī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Asad, Abū Aḥmad ibn Sukaynah—his grandson—Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī, and Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀqūlī.
Al-Samʿānī said: “Dignified and awe-inspiring, of praiseworthy character; I never knew him to make a slip. I read many works to him, and I was lodging in his ribāṭ (hospice).”
Ibn al-Najjār relates: “I heard Ibn Sukaynah say, ‘I was present when he was in the throes of death. My mother asked him, “Master, how do you feel?” Unable to speak, he traced on her hand: ‘Rest and fragrant joy, and a Garden of Bliss,’ and then he passed away.”
I say: He died on the tenth of Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 541 AH.
A funeral banquet was held for him that cost about three hundred dinars.
96 – Shāfiʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Rashīd, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Jīlī* (2)
The erudite scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Jīlī—later known as al-Karkhī—one of the foremost Shāfiʿī authorities.