Among those who narrated directly from him were Ibn al-Hulwaniyyah, al-Dimyati, Majd al-Din al-ʿAdimi, Jamal al-Din al-Sharishi, the jurist Sulayman ibn Ratlayn, and a number of others.

He was also transmitted from, by written authorization, by ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Taymiyyah, his cousin, ʿAlaʾ al-Din Ibn al-Sakakiri, and several more.

He died on the sixteenth of Rajab in the year 649 AH.

The last person to receive his narrations through direct audition was Muhammad ibn al-Dawalibi the preacher, while in our own day only Bint al-Kamal retains his written authorization.

158 – al-Nishtibri, Abu Muhammad ʿAbd al-Khaliq ibn al-Anjab ibn Maʿmar

The shaykh, imam, eminent jurist, hadith scholar, and centenarian, Diyaʾ al-Din Abu Muhammad ʿAbd al-Khaliq ibn al-Anjab ibn Muʿammar ibn Hasan al-ʿIraqi—originally al-Nishtibri, later al-Mardini—a Shafiʿi, and commonly known as “the hadith master.”

He travelled in pursuit of knowledge and, while in Baghdad, heard hadith from Abu ʾl-Fath ibn Shatil, the hadith master Abu Bakr al-Hazimi, ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Kulayb, Abu ʾl-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzi, and others.