He served as judge in Wāsiṭ for a time; after his dismissal he devoted himself to teaching. Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Fatḥ al-Mandāʾī and Ibn al-Akhdar. He passed away in Jumādā al-Ūlā of the year 560 AH at the age of sixty-six. He had studied jurisprudence under his father and his uncle Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad. In later years he lost his sight, yet he was counted among the most brilliant minds (1).
243 – Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allah ibn Ṣāʿid al-Masīḥī*—priest of the Christians, the Hippocrates of his age, titled Amīn al-Dawla; a physician and prolific author (2). He enjoyed great wealth and luxurious living, and he lived to the age of ninety-four. He died in 560 AH.
244 – Ibn al-Ṣābūnī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad al-Mālikī**—the Qurʾān reciter and leading imam, Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn