al-Waqt, and so on.
He also compiled a number of small ḥadith booklets (ajzāʾ) for his own use and went on to transmit them.
Those who studied under him include al-ʿUlaymī, Abū al-Mawāhib ibn Ṣaṣrā, and a group of his contemporaries.
Ibn al-Dubaythī⦗1⦘ said: “He was one of the notable figures, ascetics, and devoted worshippers. He had memorised the Qur’an and jurisprudence, wrote extensively, collected (reports), and was noble—combining every praiseworthy quality. I heard Ibn al-Akhdar hold him in great esteem and praise his renunciation and piety. He was reliable.”
It is related that the vizier ʿAḍud al-Dīn ibn Raʾīs al-Ruʾasāʾ sent him one thousand dinars; when the caliph al-Mustaḍīʾ learned of this he sent another thousand; then the caliph’s mother, Banafsha, added a further thousand. He did not spend any of it on himself; rather, he built a mosque with the money and bought books which he dedicated as waqf (a perpetual charitable endowment), from which the people benefited⦗2⦗.
Al-Zaydī died in Shawwal of the year 575 AH, while his parents were still alive, and he was buried in his own house—may Allah have mercy on him.
50 – al-Qurashī, Abū al-Maḥāsin ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Khaḍir*
The judge, Abū al-Maḥāsin ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Khaḍir al-Qurashī,