Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī transmitted from him, praised him even more highly, and said, “He died while campaigning on the frontier at Dumyāṭ, in Jumādā al-Ākhirah—or, according to another report, in Rajab—of the year 616 AH.”

Ishāq al-Wazīrī informed us; ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm the ḥadith scholar informed us; Ibn Shās informed us; Ibn Barrī informed us; Abū Ṣādiq al-Madīnī informed us; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us; al-ʿAbbās ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ghasūlī narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Naṣr narrated to us; Sufyān narrated, from Musāwir al-Warrāq, from Jaʿfar ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth, from his father, who said:
“I saw the Prophet ﷺ wearing a black turban.”
This was also recorded by T and Q (1) through their respective chains from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah.

72 – al-Iftikhār ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn al-Faḍl al-Qurashī *
The shaykh, the imām, the eminent scholar, the foremost authority among the Ḥanafīs: Iftikhār al-Dīn Abū Hāshim ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Qurashī, al-Hāshimī, al-ʿAbbāsī, originally from Balkh and later of Aleppo, the Ḥanafī.