I heard from him, and he was a trustworthy, upright man, one of the people of the Qur’an.
Al-Mundhirī said: “He died on the night of the twenty-sixth of Ṣafar in the year 636 AH, in Damascus.” ⦗1⦘
Al-Barzalī wrote about him:
"From Jaʿfar the Hamadhānī we obtained
What through the passing ages we had lacked—
Chains lofty and sound, tales charming and fine,
Histories exact, from masters eminent and renowned;
Like Abū Ṭāhir, the Salafī, the erudite Isfahānī, the ʿUthmānī.
With him you will find works of belles-lettres he recited
And learning drawn from the sciences of the Qur’an."
Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Tanūkhī informed us; Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, the ḥāfiẓ, informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamd at al-Dūn ⦗2⦘ and Badr ibn Dulaf at al-Farak ⦗3⦘ informed us; they both said:
The judge Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Dīnawarī informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, the ḥāfiẓ, informed us; Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb, the ḥāfiẓ, narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ḥakīm narrated to us; my father narrated to us; al-Ḥasan—meaning Ibn Ṣāliḥ—narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from al-Aswad,