and he heard from his father, Abū al-Ghanāʾim; ʿAlī ibn Khaldūn; Abū al-Qāsim ibn ʿAsākir; Abū al-Fahm ibn Abī al-ʿAjāʾiz; and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include the hadith master ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm, al-Qūṣī, Ibn al-Ḥulwāniyyah, Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Khallāl, and Tāǧ al-ʿArab, daughter of ʿAllān.
By written authorization, Muḥammad ibn Mushriq also received from him.
He narrated in Damascus as well as in Egypt, lived seventy-six years, and was counted among the foremost legal witnesses of his time.
He passed away in Rajab (1) of the year 636 AH, and he was the brother of the long-lived scholar Makkī (2).
44 – al-Tibrīzī, Abū al-Khayr Badal ibn Abī al-Muʿammar ibn Ismāʿīl
The Imām, traditionist, and tireless traveller, Abū al-Khayr Badal ibn Abī al-Muʿammar ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tibrīzī.
Ikmal of Ibn al-Sabuni, p. 304, entry 298, which states that he heard from him in Damascus; al-Dhahabi, al-Ibr 5/149; Tarikh al-Islam (Aya Sofya MS 3012) fols. 175–176; al-Nujum al-Zahira 6/314; Shadharat al-Dhahab 5/180.
(1) Al-Hafiz al-Mundhiri records his death as follows: “On the eighth of Rajab—and it is also said in its middle—the distinguished shaykh Abu al-Maali Asad passed away …” (Takmila, 3/510, Dar al-Risala ed.). Ibn al-Sabuni notes that he died in Damascus on the night of Tuesday, 8 Rajab (Takmila Ikmal al-Ikmal, p. 305).
(2) He was older than Makki.
(*) Further sources: al-Mundhiri, Takmila Wafayat al-Naqala, vol. 3, entry 2865 (states that he reached, or exceeded, seventy years); al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam (Aya Sofya MS 3012) fol. 176; al-Ibr 5/149; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 4/1424 (gives his age at death as eighty-four); al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat 10/100, entry 4551; al-Subki, Tabaqat al-Shafiʿiyya al-Kubra 8/156, 370; al-Nujum al-Zahira 6/314; Shadharat al-Dhahab 5/180.