He passed away on 10 Ṣafar 632 AH.
243 – Ibn Ghassān, Muḥammad ibn Ghassān ibn Ghāfil al-Anṣārī
The venerable shaykh, accredited transmitter, and emir, “Sword of the State,” Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ghassān ibn Ghāfil ibn Nijād ibn Ghassān ibn Thāmir al-Anṣārī, al-Khazrajī, from Ḥimṣ.
He was born in 552 AH (1).
He came to Damascus while still a boy and heard a large corpus of ḥadith from Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Falakī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥarastānī, Abū al-Makārim ibn Hilāl, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Asad, al-Ṣāʾin ibn ʿAsākir and his brother, the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qāsim, among others.
He owned several unique fascicles, lived on the income from his real estate, and was habitually punctual in the congregational prayers.
Among those who narrated from him were: al-Ḍiyāʾ, Ibn Khalīl, Ibn al-Nābulusī, Ibn al-Ṣābūnī, Saʿd al-Khayr al-Nābulusī and his brother, ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān al-Lamtūnī, Abū al-Faḍl Ibn ʿAsākir, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Munqidhī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥāzim, Aḥmad ibn al-ʿImād, Sulaymān ibn Kasā, al-Muʾayyad ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Aqrabānī, and others.
The last of his regular attendees was the physician Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Qāsim.
He died on 13 Shaʿbān 632 AH.