He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of 556 AH, after a lengthy illness, at the age of eighty.
265 – Ibn al-Mādih, Abū Muḥammad Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Tamīmī
The venerable, long-lived and trustworthy shaykh: Abū Muḥammad Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mādih al-Tamīmī, of Baghdad.
A senior shaykh; he possessed about six fascicles with elevated chains of transmission.
He heard (hadith) from Abū Naṣr al-Zaynabī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Anbārī, and Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn Abī ʿUthmān.
Those who narrated from him included Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Shaʿʿār, Aḥmad ibn Ṭāriq, ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Dīnawarī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Hibat Allah, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn al-Maqrūn, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ghazzāl, Abū al-Futūḥ Naṣr ibn al-Ḥuṣrī, Thābit ibn Musharraf, ʿAlī ibn Būrnadāz, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ṭabarī, and Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥarb al-Narsī.
His father was a professional elegist who praised the Companions with odes during the pilgrimage seasons, chanting them in a melodious voice.
Abū Muḥammad died in Dhū al-Qaʿda of 556 AH, when he was in his nineties.
In that same year there also died: Abū Ḥakīm Ibrāhīm ibn Dīnār al-Nahrawānī, the ascetic jurist(1), and the emir,