He died in Isfahan in 571 AH, at the age of eighty-three.
4 – Ibn al-Būqī, Abū Jaʿfar Hibat Allah ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥasan*
The senior Shāfiʿī authority of Wāsiṭ, Abū Jaʿfar Hibat Allah ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥasan (1) al-Wāsiṭī, known as Ibn al-Būqī, the perfumer.
He heard ḥadīth from Abū Nuʿaym al-Jummārī, Abū Nuʿaym ibn Zabzab, and Khamīs the ḥāfiẓ.
He pursued legal studies and excelled under Abū ʿAlī al-Fāriqī, and Ibn Hubayrah (2) later summoned him to court.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Akhḍar and Ibrāhīm al-Kāshgharī. He was insightful regarding disputed questions and thoroughly versed in the laws of inheritance.
He passed away in Wāsiṭ, in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of 571 AH, when he was in his nineties.
5 – al-Yūsufī, Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd al-Khāliq**
The righteous shaykh Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī, the tailor.