and he was a man of standing and considerable means, living on to the full age of one hundred. He died on Monday, the first of Rajab in 562 AH.
298 – Al-Daqqāq, Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allah ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hilāl
The eminent shaykh and chief authority for the ḥadith of Baghdad: Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allah ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hilāl ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥimṣāʾ al-ʿIjlī, al-Sāmarrī, the scribe, later known as al-Baghdādī, nicknamed Ibn al-Daqqāq. He was a very long-lived scholar, sound in transmission, originally from the Zafariyyah quarter.
Born: 471 AH.
He heard ḥadith from Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Anbārī, ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAlī ibn Zikriyy, Abū al-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿUthmān, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Fahd al-ʿAllāf, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Aḥmad al-Suyūrī, and he possessed certain fascicles uniquely.
Narrated from him: al-Samʿānī, ʿAbd al-Ghani ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Dhahabī, Ismāʿīl ibn Bātkīn al-Jawharī, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad al-Qubbayṭī, and many others.
The last person to receive an ijāzah from him was al-Rashīd Aḥmad ibn Maslamah.
Al-Samʿānī said: “He was an acceptable shaykh; outwardly he displayed goodness and piety.”
Ibn Qudāmah said: “He is—so far as I know—the earliest of our shaykhs from whom we took by audition.”
Ibn Mashshaq reported: “He died on the nineteenth of Muḥarram, 562 AH.”