He was highly esteemed in his own city, enjoying widespread acceptance and social standing.
I say: The last person who received his authorisation (ijāza) was ʿĪsā ibn Salāmah al-Khayyāṭ, from whom ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Āmidī attended nine sessions of Maʿmar’s narrations.
ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān informed us; Abū Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah informed us; Maʿmar ibn al-Fākher informed us; Abū al-Fatḥ al-Ḥaddād informed us; Ibn ʿAbdkūyah informed us; al-Ṭabarānī informed us, saying: ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz related to us; al-Qaʿnabī related to us; Mughīrah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to us, from Abū al-Zinād, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Allah is more pleased with the repentance of one of you than any of you is with his stray mount when he finds it.” ⦗1⦘
Ibn Mashshiq said: Maʿmar died on the 13th of Dhū al-Qaʿdah in 564 AH, at the age of seventy.
- Ibn Khudayr – Abū Ṭālib al-Mubārak ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī*
An imam, ḥadith scholar, truthful transmitter and benefactor: Abū Ṭālib al-Mubārak ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Khudayr al-Baghdādī, the money-changer and cloth-merchant.
He was born in 483 AH.