He was a man of outstanding probity, dignified in bearing. He performed the pilgrimage more than once, established an endowment, and gave in charity. He also devoted much time to prayer, Qur’an recitation, and fasting, and he was praised for these qualities and many others.
Those who narrated from him include the ḥadith master Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir, his son, his nephew Zayn al-Umamāʾ, Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Ṣaṣrā, the ḥadith scholar ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Shaykh Abū ʿUmar, his brother Muwaffaq al-Dīn, al-Shihāb Muḥammad ibn Khalaf ibn Rājiḥ, Muḥammad ibn Ghassān, and others.
He died on the tenth of Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 565 AH (1), and was buried in the Bāb al-Farādis cemetery.
Among his children were shaykhs, narrators, and men of distinction.

318 – al-Fāriqī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd*
The ascetic of Iraq, Abū ʿAbd Allāh (2) Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, a resident of Baghdad.
After each prayer he would deliver a reminder in the Qaṣr Mosque, sitting on two bricks, and both scholars and dignitaries attended his gatherings. His speech—couched in the language of spiritual poverty—was sweet; he enjoyed spiritual states, deep devotion to God, and strenuous disciplines. He was chaste in conduct, handsome of face, and endowed with eloquence and clarity (3).
He heard ḥadith from Jaʿfar al-Sarrāj,
and Ibn Sukaynah reported from him.