and he pursued ḥadith and read copiously.

Those who transmitted from him include Abū al-Futūḥ ibn al-Ḥuṣrī and others.

He was astonishing in matters of language and utterly reliable in transmission.

Ibn al-Najjār said: “He had no fault save the despair he constantly felt about himself—there are many anecdotes on that score—and he left a sizeable fortune.”

I add: he studied under Abū Manṣūr ibn al-Jawālīqī, and in Egypt under the stylist Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn al-Khallāl.

His handwriting was elegant and his notation precise. He travelled for trade, then took the teaching chair, lecturing on the works of adab. He possessed a powerful grasp of grammar; in Egypt he studied grammar with Ibn Barrī (1), while Ibn Barrī, for his part, benefited from him in lexicography. He had memorised an indescribable amount of Arab poetry.

He was the maternal uncle of the ḥadith scholar Aḥmad ibn Ṭāriq al-Karkī (2).

He died on 3 Muḥarram 576 AH.

In that same year passed away: al-Silafī (3); Abū al-Ḍiyāʾ Badr al-Jadhādhādhī (4), transmitter of the Ṣaḥīḥ; Shams al-Dawla Tūrānshāh (5) ibn Ayyūb; and Abū al-Mafākhir Saʿīd ibn