sixty. My father had travelled to the Maghrib and was taken captive.

I say: He died between Hama and Aleppo; his body was carried to Hama, where he was buried on the eighth of Jumada al-Akhira, in the year 646 AH.

The notable Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd, the brother of al-ʿIzz, had passed away before him, at the end of the year 642 AH, aged seventy-nine. He had heard ḥadīth from ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn al-Furāwī and Abū al-Ṭāhir ibn ʿAwf, and he went blind in his later years. Among those who reported from him were al-Shihāb al-Dashtī and Sunqur al-Zaynabī.

173 – Ibn al-Barādhiʿī, Abū al-Barakāt ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Qurashī

The upright scholar, Ṣafī al-Dīn, Abū al-Barakāt ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir al-Qurashī, of Damascus.

He heard ḥadīth from Ibn ʿAsākir, Abū Saʿd ibn Abī ʿAṣrūn, and many others.

Al-Barzalī compiled a selection of his narrations.

Those who transmitted from him include al-Barzalī himself, his grandson Bahāʾ al-Dīn, al-Dimyāṭī, Muḥammad ibn Khaṭīb Bayt al-Abbār, Muḥammad ibn ʿAtīq, Muḥammad ibn al-Bālisi, and others.

He died in Jumada al-Akhira (1), in the year 647 AH, at the age of a little over eighty.