al-Abbār (1) said, “He composed a work on the legal rulings derived from the Qur’an that is among the very best ever written on the topic.

It was reported that two years before his death he was stricken with paralysis and numbness, conditions that impaired his memorization, so people ceased taking knowledge from him until he passed away in Jumāda al-Ākhira, 597 AH.

I say: Those who narrated from him include Ismāʿīl ibn Yaḥyā al-ʿAṭṭār, ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Muḥammad, Abū al-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dānī the scribe, and al-Sharaf al-Mursī; they received from him the transmission of the Muwattaʾ.

192 – Abu al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī *
The shaykh, the imām, the erudite scholar, the ḥāfiẓ, the exegete, Shaykh al-Islām, the pride of Iraq, the splendor of the religion: Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥammādī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Naḍr ibn al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, son of the jurist ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, son of the jurist al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, a descendant of the Caliph, the Messenger of Allah’s Companion, Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq—of Qurashi stock.