the Anomalous Readings; a book entitled Kitāb Mutashābih al-Qurʾān (The Similar Passages of the Qurʾān); Kitāb ʿAdad al-Āy (The Number of Verses); a fascicle called Iʿrāb al-Ḥadīth (Parsing Ḥadīth); a short treatise on juridical disagreement; a commentary on al-Hidāyah of Abū al-Khaṭṭāb; the book al-Marām fī al-Madhhab; a work on the laws of inheritance, and two other pieces; a commentary on al-Faṣīḥ; a commentary on the Ḥamāsah anthology; a commentary on the Maqāmāt; a commentary on the Khutbahs; and other items listed by Ibn al-Najjār which I have left out.

Those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Dubaythī, Ibn al-Najjār, al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī, al-Jamāl ibn al-Ṣayrafī, and a number of others.

It was said that whenever he intended to compose a book, he would gather several works already written in that field, have them read aloud to him, and only afterwards begin to dictate. For that reason people used to say, “Abū al-Baqāʾ is the pupil of his own pupils,” meaning that he followed their lead in what they read to him and wrote down.

Some tried to persuade him to abandon the school of Aḥmad, but he declared on oath: “If you were to pour gold—gold—over me until I disappeared beneath it, I would never leave my school.”

The erudite scholar Abū al-Baqāʾ died on the eighth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 616 AH. He enjoyed a good measure of piety, devotion, and regular litanies.

65 – Ibn al-Nāqid, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī

The Shaykh of the Qurʾān reciters: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī al-Riḍā Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd, known as Ibn al-Nāqid, al-Baghdādī, the plasterer (al-jassāṣ).