The last to transmit from him by written authorization was the “Musnad of Baghdad,” Muḥammad ibn ad-Dīnah.
He died on the 6th of Rajab in the year 591 AH.
In that same year there also passed away: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Abī Manṣūr ibn al-Zibriqān al-Iṣfahānī, who had reached his tenth decade of life; the master-reciter Shujāʿ ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayyidahum al-Mudlijī in Egypt; the Baghdadi Qurʾān-reader Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Wāsiṭī; Abū Muḥammad ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ḥijrī; Abū al-Maḥāsin Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Aṣfahbudh of Isfahān; Abū al-Ḥasan Najbah (1) ibn Yaḥyā al-Ruʿaynī, the reciter; and Abū Manṣūr Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Kharrāz (2) al-Ḥarīmī, one of Ibn Khalīl’s teachers—he had heard from Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Mahdī.
131 – al-Ḥijrī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī
The shaykh, imām, erudite scholar, long-lived authority, master reciter, precision reader, ḥadīth scholar, ḥāfiẓ, definitive proof, Shaykh al-Islām: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Dhī al-Nūn al-Ruʿaynī, al-Ḥijrī (3), the Andalusian from Almería, Mālikī in law, known for his asceticism and later resident in Ceuta.
He was born in 505 AH.