and al-Shams ibn al-Zayn, al-ʿIzz al-Fārūthī, al-ʿImād Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ṭabbāl, al-Rashīd Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim, al-Majd ibn al-Khalīlī, al-Shihāb al-Abarqūhī, and a number of others.
The last person to receive his narration by way of ijāzah was the judge Taqī al-Dīn Sulaymān ibn Ḥamzah al-Ḥanbalī.
In Muʿjam al-Abarqūhī, its editor writes: “ʿUmar ibn Karam was a man of worship and chastity, cut off from people, and overcome with humility whenever he read hadith.”
He died on 6 Rajab 629 AH.
Ibn al-Najjār said: “He was righteous, scrupulous, devout, chaste, and given to worship. Among the material he transmitted are: the fifth fascicle of the hadith of Ibn Makhlad—from Ṭāhir ibn Khālid ibn Nizār and Ibn Karāmah—which he heard from Naṣr ibn Naṣr al-ʿUkbarī; the first large section of al-Mukhalṣiyyāt; the book al-Iʿtibār by Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, likewise heard from Naṣr ibn Naṣr; the ninth of the Jaʿdiyyāt, heard from Abū al-Waqt; Juzʾ al-Naḥḥās wa-al-Aṭʿimah by al-Dārimī; the Musnad of ʿAbd; Darajāt al-Tāʾibīn; Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī; and the fifth and sixth portions of the hadith of Ibn Ṣāʿid.”
I read in the handwriting of al-Sayf Aḥmad that ʿUmar ibn Karam left no offspring; that his family owned a public bath which was later confiscated; that he used to provide grooming services but, when he became infirm, withdrew to a small lodging; that he never refused anything offered to him—though at times he would hint at a need—and that he lived in deliberate asceticism and austerity.
- Khwarazmshah Jalāl al-Dīn Mangubirnī ibn Muḥammad al-Khwarazmī
The great sultan, Jalāl al-Dīn Mangubirnī, son of the great sultan ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn