Ibn al-Najjar said: “We heard from him. He was righteous, devout, truthful, and humble. In the end he fell into abject poverty, yet he bore it with patience and sought his reward from Allah. He possessed no share of formal learning.”
He died in Muharram of the year 598 AH.
186 – al-Khushūʿī, Abū Ṭāhir Barakāt b. Ibrāhīm b. Ṭāhir *
The shaykh, scholar, hadith expert, long-lived narrator, and musnid of Syria: Abū Ṭāhir Barakāt b. Ibrāhīm b. Ṭāhir b. Barakāt b. Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī, al-Khushūʿī, al-Anmāṭī, al-Raffāʾ, al-Dhahabī—so called after the quarter (1) of Ḥajar al-Dhahab.
He was born in Ṣafar of the year 510 AH.
He heard hadith from Hibat Allah b. al-Akfānī—extensively—from ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Ḥamzah, Ṭāhir b. Sahl, Ibn Qubays al-Mālikī, Ibn Ṭāwūs, Jamāl al-Islām Abū al-Ḥasan, and a number of others.
He also received written authorisation (ijāza) from Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād of Isfahan, Abū Ṣādiq al-Madīnī, and al-Farrāʾ (2).