He died on 23 Rabīʿ al-Thānī 552 AH, at the age of eighty-four.
187 – ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf*
The shaykh, imam, master memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), Abū al-Faraj—one of Baghdad’s two leading traditionists alongside Ibn Nāṣir.
He was born in 464 AH.
He heard hadith from his father; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī; ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan; Rizq Allāh al-Tamīmī; Naṣr ibn al-Baṭir; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Niʿālī; Ṭirād al-Zaynabī; and many others. He travelled in search of knowledge, studying in Isfahan and Ahwāz, and he authored and compiled works.
Those who narrated from him include al-Silafī, Ibn ʿAsākir (1), al-Samʿānī, Ibn al-Jawzī, al-Tāj al-Kindī, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mubādir, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ikhwah, ʿAbd al-Salām al-Bardagūlī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Akhdar, and many others.
Al-Silafī said: “He was among the eminent Muslims in virtue, religious devotion, reliability, and noble character. He and I listened to a great deal together, and he was my close companion in Baghdad. When I went on pilgrimage, I entrusted my books to him.”
Another scholar said: “He was a traditionist with elegant handwriting, highly accurate, upright, humble and gracious, meticulous in the recitation of hadith. He wrote, collated, and produced compilations for himself.”
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī praised him in these terms and even more fulsomely.