He heard from Abū al-ʿIzz ibn Dakkāsh, Qaratikīn ibn Asʿad, Hibat Allah ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, Abū Ghālib ibn al-Bannāʾ, ʿAlī ibn al-Muwaḥḥid, and a number of others, and he alone preserved certain separate fascicles.
Among those who learned from him was ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī, who died before him by some time (1).
Those who narrated on his authority include Sālim ibn Ṣaṣrā, al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Ibn al-Dubaithī, Ibn Khalīl, and others.
Ibn al-Najjār said, “There is nothing objectionable about him, and he is the brother of Thaʿlab (2).”
He died in Ramaḍān, 589 AH.
In that same year died: the ruling sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, Shaykh Sinān—master of the Ismāʿīlī fortresses—Ṭughdī ibn Khatalagh al-Amīrī the Qurʾān-reciter, Abū Manṣūr ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kawthar al-Muḥāribī al-Gharnaṭī, the lord of Mosul ʿIzz al-Dīn Masʿūd al-Atābakī, and al-Mukarram (3) ibn Hibat Allah ibn Mukarram the Ṣūfī.
The father of Karīmah:
116 – ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn Khiḍr al-Asadī *
al-ʿAdl, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn Khiḍr al-Asadī al-Zubayrī,