Those who transmitted from him were Ibn al-Najjar, al-Sayf, Ibn Nuqtah, and our shaykh al-Abarquhī; he was a righteous man.
He died in Dhu al-Qaʿdah (1) of the year 625 AH.
148 – al-Bayyiʿ, Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Qurashi *
The eminent shaykh and hadith transmitter, Abū al-Maḥāsin Muḥammad, son of Abū al-Faraj Hibat Allah, son of Abū Ḥāmid ʿAbd al-ʿAziz, son of ʿAlī, son of Muḥammad, son of ʿUmar, son of Muḥammad, son of Ḥusayn, son of Ibrāhīm, son of ʿUmar, son of Ibrāhīm, son of Saʿīd, son of Ibrāhīm, son of Muḥammad, son of Najā, son of Mūsā, descendant of the Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ—al-Qurashi, al-Zuhri, al-Saʿdi, originally from Dīnawur, later of Baghdad, known as al-Marātibī and nicknamed al-Bayyiʿ.
His birth: 530 AH (2).
He heard hadith from his uncle Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥāmid, from Muḥammad ibn Ṭirād al-Zaynabī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Yūsufī, and Abū al-Waqt al-Sijzī. Unique in his time, his father had been one of the chamberlains of the caliphate.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Dubaythī, Ibn al-Najjar, Abū Isḥāq ibn al-Wāsiṭī, Abū al-Faraj ibn al-Zayn, Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abarquhī, and others.
He travelled to the Levant several times for trade. A man of considerable means, piety, and excellent conduct, he lost his sight toward the end of his life.