He died on the thirteenth of Shaʿbān, 616 AH, at eighty-four years of age.
67 – Rayḥān Abū al-Khayr ibn Tīkān ibn Mūsaka al-Kurdi *
Shaykh al-Qurrāʾ, Abū al-Khayr Rayḥān ibn Tīkān ibn Mūsaka al-Kurdi, a Baghdadi from the Ḥarbi quarter, who was blind. He could have studied under Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn. He recited the Qur’an in its various transmissions before ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Harbi, and he heard hadith from Ibn al-Ṭalāya, al-Mubārak ibn Aḥmad al-Kindī, and others. Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Dubaithī, al-Ḍiyāʾ, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Barzālī, and Ibn al-Ṣayrafī. He also granted an ijazah to al-Kamāl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mukabbir, who alone possessed that license. He died in Ṣafar (1), 616 AH, when he was close to one hundred years old (2).
68 – al-Shaqūrī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī **
The imam, Qur’an master, senior hadith authority, and long-lived scholar: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Ghāfiqī, of Cordoba, known as al-Shaqūrī.