He also says—may Allah pardon him:
“He was the sole transmitter for a number of teachers. He spent his whole life on the History he was compiling. I examined it and found in it many errors and misreadings. I pointed out to him the correct forms, but he failed to grasp them. I have nonetheless transmitted from him some items about which my heart is not at ease; the responsibility for them rests with him.”
I heard ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Dulaf say: “I heard the vizier Abū al-Muẓaffar ibn Yūnus say to Abū al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Qaṭīʿī, ‘Woe to you! All your life you have been reading hadith, yet you cannot read a single hadith correctly.’”
Ibn al-Najjar adds: “He was prone to grammatical mistakes and had scant knowledge of the names of narrators. When he grew old he was removed from giving testimony and was confined to his house.”
He died on the fourth—or, according to another report, the fifth—of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 634 AH.
In that same year there also died: the beneficent king Aḥmad, son of the sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf; the ascetic Shaykh Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAthī; the hadith scholar Wajīh al-Dīn Barakāt ibn Ẓāfir ibn ʿAsākir of Egypt; al-Muwaffaq Ḥamd ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣudayq al-Ḥarrānī, the Ḥanbalī; Abū Ṭāhir Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Jawsuqī; Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Yāsīn; the hadith master Abū al-Rabīʿ al-Kalāʿī; al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Abī Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī; al-Nāṣiḥ Ibn al-Ḥanbalī; Abū al-Barakāt ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Qubbayṭī; al-Nāṣiḥ ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ḥarrānī, the Ḥanbalī; al-Sharaf ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, later of Egypt; ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, son of the Iraqi poet Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Taʿāwīdhī; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Nizār Ibn al-Jamāl; Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān ibn Ḥasan ibn Diḥyah al-Lughawī al-Sabtī; and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Kubba (1).