the Tatars, in Jumada I of 658 AH. He added, “He was already over a hundred.”
239 – Ibn al-Khushūʿī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Barakāt ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī
The shaykh, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Barakāt ibn Ibrāhīm, known as Ibn al-Khushūʿī al-Dimashqī, the Darner.
He heard hadith from his father, Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī, ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Najjār, and a number of others.
Those who granted him an ijāzah were al-Silafī, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, and several Turkish scholars.
Among those who narrated from him are al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Bālisī, al-ʿAlāʾ al-Kindī, Ibn al-Zarrād, his grandson ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, and others.
He died in Damascus, in Ṣafar (1), in 658 AH.
240 – al-Naʿʿāl, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Anjab ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh
The venerable, long-lived, righteous shaykh, an ascetic who safeguarded his faith: Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Anjab ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baghdādī, the Sufi, known as al-Naʿʿāl.