He died in the year eight and six hundred (608 AH) (1).
15 – al-ʿĀqūlī, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Baqāʾ *
The Imām, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Baqāʾ al-ʿĀqūlī, originally from Baghdad. He mastered the variant Qurʾānic readings under Abū al-Karam al-Shahrazūrī and later assumed the leading seat for teaching recitation. He transmitted hadith from Abū Manṣūr al-Qazzāz, Abū Manṣūr ibn Khayrūn, and a number of others. Those who narrated from him include Ibn Khalīl, al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Najīb, Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, and others. He passed away on the Day of Tarwiyah in 608 AH, at the age of eighty-three, may Allah have mercy on him.
16 – Ibn Mandawayh, ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Abī Ghālib al-Aṣbahānī **
The shaykh, the imām, the master of the Qurʾānic reciters, and the last remnant of the early scholars, Abū Masʿūd (2) ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn
(1) The cited statement is erroneous—Allah knows best—for al-Mundhiri records that he died on 18 Rabi al-Awwal 609 AH. This is the date adopted by the author of Tarikh al-Islam, who lists him among the deaths of 609 without mentioning any disagreement, and no other authority differs.
(*) Principal sources: Ibn Nuqtah, Ikmal al-Ikmal, fol. 56 (Zahiriyya MS); Ibn al-Dibthi, Tarikh, fols. 167–168 (Paris MS 5921); al-Bundari, Tarikh Baghdad, fol. 28; al-Mundhiri, Takmila, 2/entry 1217; al-Najib al-Harrani, Mashyakha, fols. 110–112 (no. 59); al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 18/1/309; al-Mukhtasar al-Muhtaj, 1/179; Maʿrifat al-Qurraʾ, fol. 187; al-Mushtabih, 85; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, 5/27; Ibn Nasir al-Din, Tawdi h al-Mushtabih, fol. 103 (Suhaj MS); Ibn al-Jazari, Ghayat al-Nihaya, 1/45–46; al-Nujum al-Zahira, 6/205; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 5/32.
(* *) Additional references: Ibn Nuqtah, al-Taqyid, fols. 170–171; al-Mundhiri, Takmila, 2/entry 1298; Dhayl al-Rawdatayn, 86; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 18/1/394–395; al-Nujum al-Zahira, 6/210; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 5/42.
(2) Al-Mundhiri calls him Abu Bakr, though some say Abu Masud.