al-Raḥbī, and he mentioned a number of other shaykhs as well.
He was scrupulously pious, of pleasant manners, versed in many disciplines, and I benefited from him greatly.
I (the author) say: Had he journeyed on to Baghdad and Mosul, he would have caught up with several senior musnids; but whenever his transmission is not from al-Silafī, the isnād becomes lower and the material scarcer.
From the Maghrib he received written authorization (ijāza) from the foremost musnid of his day, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥunayn, along with others.
When he passed away, one of the learned, as the bier was carried by, remarked, “May Allah have mercy on you, Abū al-Ḥasan. You had lifted certain communal obligations from the people”—that is, by taking up a number of branches of knowledge on their behalf.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Mundhirī; al-Rashīd al-Urmuwī; Zakī al-Dīn al-Barzalī; Majd al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Wahb al-Qushayrī; al-ʿAlam ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn al-Raṣāṣ; al-Sharaf ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Naṣr al-Fihrī, the linguist; Isḥāq ibn Balkawayh, the Sufi; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUthmān al-Qābisī, the market inspector; al-Jamāl Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Hawārī; the judge Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ al-Subkī; Muḥammad ibn Murtaḍā ibn Abī al-Jūd; al-Shihāb Ismāʿīl al-Qūṣī; al-Najīb Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣafāqusī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Ṭarkhān al-Urmuwī; al-Muḥyī ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Damīrī; and several others.
Yūsuf ibn al-Qābisī transmitted to me from him by ijāza; during my travels I did not meet anyone who had heard from him directly.
Zakī al-Dīn al-Mundhirī states that he died at the beginning of Shaʿbān in the year 611 AH and was buried at the foot of al-Muqaṭṭam.