He died in Shaʿbān of the year 565 AH, while still a middle-aged man.

He produced a supplement to al-Khaṭīb’s History, arranging it year by year up to (and slightly beyond) 565 AH, recording the major events and the obituaries of that period.

ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī said: “He was one of the firmly grounded scholars. He wrote extensively and attained a position of leadership, combining learning and piety with careful verification and mastery.”

356 – Abū al-Khair ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Iṣbahānī
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and eminent scholar Abū al-Khair ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān ibn Mūsā al-Iṣbahānī.

Born: in Ṣafar, 500 AH.

He transmitted from Ghānim al-Barjī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād, Jaʿfar al-Thaqafī, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Dashtaj, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Daqqāq, and their peers; and, during his journeys, from Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, Abū al-ʿIzz ibn Kādish, and many others.

After 565 AH he arrived in Baghdad and dictated hadith in the Qaṣr Mosque, with Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Akhḍar serving as his recorder.

Ibn al-Najjar said: “I asked Ibn al-Akhḍar about him; he spoke highly of him, praised his memorization and erudition, and said, ‘People regarded him as superior to Maʿmar ibn al-Fākher.’”

Ibn al-Najjar also remarked: “He was among the preservers of hadith; I heard a number…"