al-Kāl al-Ḥillī, and Abū Jaʿfar al-Qurṭubī.
Those who transmitted from him include the two ḥadith masters Ibn ʿAsākir and al-Samʿānī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qaṭīʿī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥusayn al-Mawṣilī, and several others.
He died in Mosul on the day of ʿId al-Fiṭr in 567 AH.
Ibn Shaddād said, “I used to see a man come to the shaykh, hand him something wrapped up, and then leave. We later looked into the matter (1) and learned that it was a boiled chicken set aside for him each day: that man would buy it and parboil it, and when the shaykh rose he would finish cooking it himself.
He also said, “I remained in his company for eleven years (2).”
350 – al-Baṭāʾiḥī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAsākir *
The imam and principal Qurʾān-reciter of Iraq, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAsākir ibn al-Muraḥḥab al-Baṭāʾiḥī, who was blind.
He recited the Qurʾān according to numerous transmissions before Abū al-ʿIzz al-Qalānsī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Bāriʿ, Abū Bakr al-Mazrafī (3), and ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zaydī, achieving distinction in this field.
(1) In the base manuscript the word reads tawsina, whereas the biographical sources have taqfina.
(2) See: Inbaʾ al-ruwat, vol. 4, p. 38; Wafayat al-aʿyan, vol. 6, p. 172; Nafh al-tib, vol. 2, p. 117.
(*) Al-Muntazam, 10 / 267; Muʿjam al-udabaʾ, 14 / 61–62; al-Kamil, 11 / 435 (year 571); Inbaʾ al-ruwat, 2 / 298; al-ʿIbar, 4 / 215; Maʿrifat al-qurraʾ al-kibar, 2 / 434; Duwal al-Islam, 2 / 86; al-Mushtabih, p. 582; Talkhis Ibn Maktum, p. 146; Nukat al-humyan, pp. 214–215; al-Bidaya wa-l-nihaya, 12 / 296; Dhayl Tabaqat al-Hanabila, 1 / 335–337; Ghayat al-nihaya, 1 / 566; Tabaqat Ibn Qadi Shuhba, 2 / 169; Tabsir al-muntabih, 4 / 1275; al-Nujum al-zahira, 6 / 80; Shadharat al-dhahab, 4 / 242.
al-Bataʾihi is a nisba referring to al-Bataʾih, a village situated between Wasit and Basra.
Yaqut notes that the area was called “Bataʾih Wasit” because the waters tabattaha there—that is, they overflowed and spread out; in earlier times it consisted of contiguous settlements and fertile land.
(3) In Muʿjam al-udabaʾ, 14 / 62, the name is miscopied as “al-Marzuki,” written with rāʾ, then zāy, then qāf, and in