al-Taqī ibn al-Wāsiṭī, al-Kamāl ʿAlī ibn Waḍḍāḥ, Abū al-Faraj ibn al-Zayn, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Fārūthī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Hubayra, a resident of Bilbays; and—by written authorization—Abū Naṣr ibn al-Shīrāzī and the Ḥanbalī judge.

Ibn Nuqṭah (1) said: “His audition is sound; he is reliable, has memorized a great deal, and narrates well. He heard the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Ismāʿīlī from Yaḥyā ibn Thābit.”

Ibn al-Najjār said: “He preached when he was young, but had a strong inclination toward amusement and licentiousness. He therefore abandoned preaching, occupied himself with what is impermissible, and kept the company of trouble-makers. I heard his father say, ‘I call down supplication against him every night at the pre-dawn hour.’ He remained on that course to the end of his life. He would accept no stipend, copied ten quires a day, yet his learning was scant.”

I say: He died on the last day of Ramaḍān in the year 630 AH.

220 – Ibn al-Athīr, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad*
The shaykh, the Imām, the erudite scholar, the ḥadith expert, the man of letters, the genealogist, ʿIzz al-Dīn, Abū al-Ḥasan