of Ibn Rawāḥah, reproaching him for narrating, and the latter excused himself by saying that necessity had compelled him to do so. I was likewise told that he criticized al-Ḥarīrī (1) and the manner adopted by al-Ḥarīrī’s followers. He never stopped holding reading sessions, bore patiently with students and travelling seekers, and would write out comparison sheets (ṭibāq) for them until the very end of his life.

He transmitted major works such as al-Ḥilyah, al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr, Ibn Saʿd’s al-Ṭabaqāt, the Sunan of al-Dāraqutnī, al-Ṭaḥāwī’s Kitāb al-Āthār, the Musnad of al-Ṭayālisī, the Sunan of Abū Qurrah, al-Ṭabarānī’s Kitāb al-Duʿāʾ, a number of Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim’s writings, and many works of Abū Shaykh, al-Ṭabarānī, and Abū Nuʿaym. With his death, the audition of many other texts came to a halt because Isfahan was laid waste.

He passed away—may Allah envelop him in mercy—on the tenth of Jumada al-Ākhirah in the year 648 AH, at the age of ninety-three.

His brother Yūnus had died earlier, in Muḥarram. Yūnus had studied and auditioned hadith with al-Būṣayrī and Ibn Yāsīn and had devoted himself to the craft. Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Faḍl al-Irbilī, Ibn al-Khallāl, al-ʿImād ibn al-Bālisī, and others.

During the same year there also died: the musnid of Alexandria, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Rawāj, aged ninety-four; the eminent jurist and pride of the judges, Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Jabbāb al-Saʿdī in Egypt; the musnid of Baghdad, Abū Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn Maḥmūd ibn al-Khayyir al-Azajī, aged eighty-five; the musnid Muẓaffar ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Fawwī at al-Thaghr; ʿAlī ibn Sālim ibn Abī Bakr al-Baʿqūbī; and the mufti Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Saʿādāt al-Dabbās the Ḥanbalī—both of them (2) related from Ibn Shātil.