Ibn al-Najjār said: He was continually seeking (knowledge), showed affection toward me, and was pleasant in company—yet he was an extremist in Shiʿism, tight-fisted and miserly. He would buy scraps of bread from beggars, follow the hadith scholars so that he could share their food, and would not even light a lamp. He left behind merchandise worth three thousand dinars, but died alone and no one noticed his passing.

ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Jīlī said: He was trustworthy and exact, despite the corruption of his creed.

Ibn Nuqṭah (1) said: His beliefs were vile; he was a Rāfiḍī.

It was said that a mouse had eaten his nose and ears.

He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 592 AH.

His grandfather had been the qāḍī of Karak Nūḥ.

In the same year there also died: the qāḍī of Córdoba, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥurayth al-Lakhmī, at about eighty years of age; Abū Ṭāhir Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamadiyyah al-ʿUkbarī, the brother of ʿAbd Allāh and an associate of Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn; Balqīs bint Sulaymān ibn al-Niẓām; ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ṣābūnī the sandal-maker; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī, known as al-Mahhād; Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad al-Jalālī al-Baghdādī, who reached one hundred years; the leading poet of his age, Abū al-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Fāris ibn al-Muʿallim al-Wāsiṭī, who lived past a hundred; the vizier of Iraq, Muʾayyad al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qaṣṣāb; Abū Muḥammad Muḥammad ibn Maʿālī ibn Shadqinī; Imām Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Nūqānī, a companion of al-Ghazālī; Imām Mujīr al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn al-Mubārak ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī, a disciple of Abū Manṣūr al-Razzāz; and Yūsuf ibn Maʿālī al-Kattānī, the Qurʾān-reciter.