He died in Baghdad on the fifth of Muḥarram, in the year 621 AH.
Shaykh Majd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Irbilī relates in his book: “Abū Jaʿfar ibn Mukarram in Irbil transmitted to us …,” after which he cited a ḥadīth.
Those who passed away in the same year were:
• Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn Ṣirmā al-Azajī;
• the ḥadīth master, Abū Sulaymān Dāwūd ibn Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd ibn Ḥawṭ Allāh al-Anṣārī of Málaga;
• Abū Bakr Zayd ibn Yaḥyā al-Azajī, the merchant;
• the Qurʾān reciter, Abū Ṭālib ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Samīʿ al-Hāshimī al-Wāsiṭī;
• Abū al-Barakāt ʿAbd al-Qawī ibn al-Jabbāb al-Saʿdī;
• Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿAlī al-Lakhmī ibn al-Baysānī, brother of the renowned Qāḍī al-Fāḍil—al-Muwaffaq ʿAbd al-Laṭīf (1) said: “He owned about two hundred thousand books.” (2);
• ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muʿammar ibn ʿAskar;
• the judge ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Rashīd ibn Bunaymān al-Hamadhānī;
• ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Nabīh, the poet and compiler of the Dīwān;
• ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf ibn Ṣabūkhā;
• the leading physician, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdān al-Dimashqī, known as Ibn al-Lubūdī;
• the head of the Mālikīs, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zarqūn al-Ishbīlī;
• the Qurʾān reciter al-Fakhr Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Faraj al-Mawṣilī;
• the eminent exemplar, Shaykh ʿAlī al-Faranthī of the Mountain region;
• and Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Yatīm al-Andarashī, the itinerant ḥadīth scholar.
135 – Ibn al-Bannāʾ, ʿAlī ibn Naṣr ibn al-Mubārak al-Wāsiṭī*
The venerable shaykh and traditionist, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Karam Naṣr ibn al-Mubārak.