Ibn Nuqta said: Ibn al-Baṭṭī transmitted Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ (The Adornment of the Friends of Allah) from Hamd al-Haddad, who was reliable and whose audition was sound; the leading imams and ḥadith masters took from him.

Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Din commented: He was our teacher and the teacher of the people of Baghdad in his day. Most of what he had heard came through Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn, and whatever he related to us from Rizq Allah, al-Humaydi, and Hamd reached us through another intermediary. He was trustworthy and accommodating to those who wished to listen.

Ibn al-Najjar said: He was eager to spread knowledge, truthful, and acquired most of what he heard by purchasing and copying manuscripts, after which he endowed them as a waqf. Among those who received from him were the ḥadith master Ibn Nāṣir, Saʿd al-Khayr, and other senior scholars.

Ibn Mashshiq (1) reported: He died on Thursday, 27 Jumada al-Ūlā in the year 564 AH, and was buried in the Bāb Abraz cemetery.

One year later his brother, Abū Bakr Aḥmad (2) ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī, having reached advanced age, also passed away. He had narrated from Ibn Ṭalḥah al-Niʿālī and Abū al-Qāsim al-Rabaʿī.

Those who died in the same year as Ibn al-Baṭṭī were: Saʿd Allah ibn Naṣr al-Dajjājī (3); al-Muẓaffar Mujīr al-Dīn Abaq (4) ibn Muḥammad ibn Tāj al-Mulūk, who had ruled Damascus until Nūr al-Din seized it from him; the Egyptian vizier Shāwar ibn Mujīr al-Saʿdī (5); and Asad al-Din, the vizier of Egypt.