Al-Abbār said (1): He was one of the foremost ḥuffāẓ; he could reel off the texts of reports and had their chains of transmission committed to memory, leaving out nothing at all. He was praised for both mastery and transmission, and was predominantly marked by piety and asceticism. He wore rough clothing and ate coarse, dry food (2). At times he would even give the call to prayer in the mosques. He left behind writings that attest to the breadth of his memorization, and he possessed a fair share of talent in both verse and prose.

He granted me an ijāza (3), and our teachers narrated from him to us.

He also said (4): He died while on military campaign; he was present at the Battle of al-ʿUqab, which led to the devastation of al-Andalus when the Muslims were routed there. Abū ʿUmar disappeared in Ṣafar, in the year 609 AH.

In the same year there also died: Rabīʿa al-Yamanī the traditionist, Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Muʿazzam, the grammarian Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Kharūf of Seville, Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qubbayṭī, and the exemplar Maḥmūd ibn ʿUthmān al-Naʿʿāl.

8 – Rabīʿa ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥaḍramī

The imām, jurist, unique scholar, traditionist, intrepid traveller, and reliable authority; Abū Nizār al-Ḥaḍramī, the Yemenite, of Ṣanʿāʾ and Dhamār, a Shāfiʿī.

His birth: in the year 525 AH.