I said: I surmise that he died in mid-life, or at the very beginning of old age.(1)

Abū Muḥammad ibn Hārūn wrote to us, enclosing a list of the works he narrates. Among them he reports that he heard the book al-Shamāʾil from the ḥāfiẓ al-Tarrāz, who then granted him authorization for his narrations.

172 – Ibn Rawāḥah ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī *
The shaykh, scholar, hadith transmitter, and venerable centenarian, ʿIzz al-Dīn, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥah ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥah ibn ʿUbayd ibn Muḥammad—descendant of the Companion of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥah ibn Thaʿlabah ibn Imriʾ al-Qays ibn ʿAmr—Anṣārī, Khazrajī, Syrian, from Ḥamāh, adherent of the Shāfiʿī school, and a trustworthy witness.

Birth. He was born on an island in the Western Sea—namely Sicily—while his parents were in captivity, in the year 560 AH. They had been seized when his mother was pregnant with him, after which Allah delivered them.

Travel and study. After 570 AH his father took him to the frontier region, where he enabled him to hear extensively from Abū Ṭāhir al-Salafī, including the entire Prophetic biography (al-Sīrah al-Nabawiyyah). Ibn Rawāḥah later narrated that work in Baalbek, from whom our shaykh Tāj al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Khāliq received it. He also heard hadith from: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Barrī, ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allāh al-Kāmilī, Abū al-Juyūsh ʿAsākir ibn ʿAlī, and Abū Saʿd ibn Abī ʿAṣrūn,