Ibn al-Akhdar said, “He would not transmit in public what he had heard, out of scrupulous piety.”
Ibn al-Jawzī remarked, “He was a memorizer of the Book of Allah, devout, and trustworthy.”
Al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān stated, “We heard a great deal from him. He came from a household devoted to ḥadīth, was righteous yet poor, and extremely strict about granting permission to attend his sessions. Allah granted me a share of his narrations. He used to lend me the fascicles so that I could copy them, and each day he would recite twenty juzʾ of the Qur’an.”
I say: He passed away in Jumada I, in the year 575 AH.
In that same year died: Abū al-Fatḥ Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Wafāʾ al-Ṣāʾigh (1); Abū Yaḥyā al-Yasaʿ ibn Ḥazm al-Ghāfiqī (2); Tajannī al-Wahbāniyya (3); al-Mustadīʾ bi-Amr Allah (4); ʿAbd al-Muḥsin ibn Turayk al-Bayyiʿ; the muhaddith ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī al-Zaydī (5), the exemplar; Abū al-Maʿālī ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allah ibn Khaldūn; the muhaddith Abū al-Maḥāsin ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī (6), the uncle of Karīma; ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad, Abū Hāshim al-Dūshābī (7) al-Harrās; the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr ibn Khayr al-Lamṭūnī (8); and the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn