and by written authorization (ijāza) the following also transmitted from him: the two judges Ibn al-Khuwayyī and Ibn Ḥamzah, as well as Bahāʾ ibn ʿAsākir.

He taught, issued fatwas, authored works, and was the head of the Ḥanbalīs of Damascus in his day, enjoying extraordinary public acceptance. He narrated ḥadith and preached in Egypt and Damascus. Among his writings are a collection of sermons and orations, and the book History of the Preachers.

He was eloquent of expression, decisive, awe-inspiring, chivalrous, and held in great esteem.

He passed away on the third of Muḥarram in 634 AH, at the age of eighty.

I read before Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, who informed us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Najm informed us; al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Mūsā informed us; Abū ʿAlī the reciter informed us; Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ informed us; Abū Isḥāq ibn Ḥamzah narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us (H).

Abū Nuʿaym added: Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Razīn al-Khayyāṭ narrated to us; al-Bāghandī narrated to us; they both said:

Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us, Ṣadaqah ibn Khālid narrated to us, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣābir narrated to us, ʿAṭiyyah ibn Qays narrated to us, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghanm narrated to us, saying:

Abū ʿĀmir—or Abū Mālik—al-Ashʿarī, and by Allah he did not lie to me, informed me that he heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say:

“Indeed there will be people in my community who deem silk, wine, and musical instruments lawful. And groups will camp beside an elevation; their herds will come to them at dusk. Then a man with some need will approach them and they will say, ‘Come back to us tomorrow.’ Allah, Exalted is He, will destroy them overnight, bringing the elevation down upon them, and He will transform others into apes and swine.”

Al-Bukhārī recorded it (1) in suspended form from Hishām, and Ibn al-Dubaythī related it in his History through al-Nāṣiḥ.