Among those who related from him was al-Shihab al-Qusi, who said, “I recited his collection of sermons to him in Harran.” Others who transmitted from him include his nephew, Imam Majd al-Din; al-Jamal Yahya ibn al-Sayrafi; ʿAbd Allah ibn Abi al-ʿIzz; Abu Bakr ibn Ilyas al-Rasʿani; al-Sayf ibn Mahfuz; Abu al-Maʿali al-Abarquhi; al-Rashid al-Fariqi; and a number of others.
He passed away in Safar (1), in the year 622 AH, at the age of eighty. He was a man of many disciplines and great stature in his homeland, and through his chain I heard the Baniyasi fascicle.
166 – Ibn Dirbas, Ibrahim ibn Uthman ibn ʿIsa al-Marani *
The imam, hadith scholar, Jalal al-Din, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Uthman ibn ʿIsa ibn Dirbas al-Marani, the Kurdish Egyptian.
Al-Salafi granted him authorisation. He received hadith from Fatimah bint Saʿd al-Khair, al-Artahi, Ibn Tabarzad, al-Muʾayyad al-Tusi, Abu Ruh, Zaynab al-Shaʿriyyah, and many others, and he wrote extensively.
Al-Hafiz ʿAbd al-Azim and others narrated from him. He was well-versed in the Shafiʿi school, having studied law with his father, and he was devout, upright, ascetic, content with little, and wholly absorbed in his own affairs.
He died somewhere between India and Yemen, in the year 622 AH, at the age of fifty.