and Abū al-Munajjā ibn al-Lattī; Abū Ḥafṣ al-Suhrawardī; Muḥammad ibn ʿImād; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Bāqā; ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Qubbaīṭī; Abū al-Karam Muḥammad ibn Dulaf; ʿAlī ibn Fāʾiq; and others. The record of his auditions is sound.
He died on the fifth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 566 AH, a little over eighty years of age. The ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir, as well as al-Rashīd ibn Maslama, transmitted from him on the basis of licence.
In that same year there also died: the great vizier Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Baladī (1) — slain by the Chief of the Chiefs after he assumed the vizierate; Abū Zurʿah al-Maqdisī (2); ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī al-Wafāʾ al-Ḥājjī (3); Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿādah of Shāṭibah (4); al-Mustanjid bi-Llāh (5); and the traditionist Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Laylā al-Anṣārī al-Mursī.
323 – Ibn Hudhayl, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Balansī *
The shaykh, the imām, the long-lived authority, the foremost Qurʾān-reader of his time, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Hudhayl al-Balansī.