Kadash (1).
He lived for eighty-seven years. Those who narrated from him include al-Dubaithī, Ibn Khalīl, al-Ḍiyāʾ Muḥammad, al-Najīb ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, and others. By written authorization only, Ibn Abī al-Khayr and al-Fakhr ʿAlī transmitted from him. He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal (2) of the year 601 AH.
215 – al-Qasrī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Mūsā al-Anṣārī
The erudite, ascetic, devout worshipper, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Mūsā al-Anṣārī—an Andalusian known as al-Qasrī, from the town of Qaṣr ʿAbd al-Karīm—heard from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥunayn and from Fatḥ ibn Muḥammad, the Qurʾān-reciter.
Al-Abbār said: “He was eminent in dialectical theology (kalām), took part in many fields, and produced a Qurʾān commentary, a book entitled ‘Branches of Faith,’ another called ‘Questions and Answers,’ and other works besides. He was a man of renunciation and secluded devotion.”
(1) Ahmad ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Kadash.
(2) Al-Mundhiri states in al-Takmila that he died on the last day of Rabi al-Awwal and was buried in the Bab Harb cemetery on the western side of Baghdad.
(*) Ibn al-Abar, al-Takmila, vol. 3, fol. 42 (Azhari manuscript). The present author will re-include him in this very section and, without noticing, give the year of death as 608. In Tarikh al-Islam he first placed the biography under the obituaries for 601, then repeated it for 608, adding the second version in the margins of the manuscript and writing in his own hand on the 601 entry “move,” followed by the note: “died in eight.” When I published that part of Tarikh al-Islam (18/1/316–317) I accordingly moved the entry. Interestingly, Ibn al-Abar records the death in al-Takmila as 608, yet I have not found in his biography there the wording that al-Dhahabi cites here; perhaps Ibn al-Abar mentioned it elsewhere?