He also granted authorisation to Ibn al-Darajī, Ibn al-Bukhārī, Ibn Shaybān, and a number of others (1).
He passed away on the last day of Rajab in the year 603 AH, according to what I read in al-Ḍiyāʾ’s own handwriting.
226 – Ḥanbal ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Faraj ibn Saʿāda*
One of the last remaining Musnad transmitters—Abū ʿAlī, also styled Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Wāsiṭī, later al-Baghdādī al-Ruṣāfī, known as “the Mukabbir.” He narrated the entire Musnad from Hibbat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, having heard it in the recital of Ibn al-Khashshāb in 523 AH (2).
He likewise received ḥadīths from Ismāʿīl ibn al-Samarqandī and Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr ibn al-Muʾammil. He used to intone the takbīr in the Mahdī Congregational Mosque and acted as the public crier in property matters.
Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn al-Dubaythī, Ibn al-Najjār, Ibn Khalīl, Abū al-Ṭāhir Ibn al-Anmāṭī, al-Tāj al-Qurṭubī, al-Mufaqq Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Abārī (3), al-Ṣadr al-Bakrī, the Khaṭīb of Mardā, al-Taqī ibn Abī al-Yusr, Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn ʿAllān, Ibn Abī ʿUmar, Shaykh al-Fakhr, Ghāzī ibn al-Ḥalāwī, Zaynab bint Makkī, and many others.