He authored numerous other works as well.
Ibn al-Najjar went on to say, “ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad narrated to us; al-Kamal narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Wahhab the ḥāfiẓ narrated to us; ʿAli ibn al-Basri …” — whereupon he quoted a hadith, providing it with an elevated chain of transmission. He also left behind graceful poetry.
His birth took place in Rabiʿ al-Akhir, 513 AH.
He died on the ninth of Shaʿban, 577 AH, at a little over sixty years of age.
In that same year there also passed away: al-Ṣāliḥ Ismaʿil ibn Nūr al-Din, the ruler of Aleppo; Abu’l-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn ʿAli ibn Muhammad Ḥamūwayh al-Juwayni in Damascus; Abu Ṭāhir Hashim ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, the preacher of Aleppo; and Hibat Allah ibn Abi’l-Karam ibn al-Jalakht al-Wāsiti, at more than ninety years of age.
Al-Muwaffaq ʿAbd al-Laṭif said: “Al-Kamal—our shaykh—I never saw among the reclusive worshippers anyone firmer upon his path, nor anyone more truthful in manner. He was pure earnestness, untouched by affectation; he knew nothing of evil or of the ways of the world. He owned a house in which he lived, together with a small shop and another house whose rent sustained him. The caliph al-Mustadiʾ sent him five hundred dinars, but he returned them. He would never light a lamp for himself; beneath him lay a reed mat and he possessed two cotton garments.(1) He composed one hundred and thirty works—may Allah, exalted be He, have mercy on him.”
- Al-Kattani, Abu Talib Muhammad ibn ʿAli ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad—
The venerable shaykh, scholar, righteous, virtuous, long-lived, and supervisor of the ḥisba in Wasit,