As for Abū Ḥātim, he said, “He held the Qadari opinion on predestination, yet in the end people were forced to turn to him—that is, he alone possessed the loftiest chains of transmission.”
Mūsā ibn Hārūn said, “I asked him about the year he was born. He replied, ‘In 140 AH,’ but then wavered, suggesting it might have been a year or two earlier.”
He died, according to the soundest view, in 236 AH. It was also said that he died in 235 AH, when he had entered his tenth decade.
I read this to ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān in Nablus and heard it from Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥajjār in Damascus, and both of them said:
“Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us; Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Bundār informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhlis informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baghawī related to us; Shaybān told us; Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr narrated from Sālim ibn Munqidh, from ʿAmr ibn Aws al-Thaqafī, who said:
‘I entered upon ʿAnbasah ibn Abī Sufyān while he was taking something off, and he said, “Stay where you are; I want to relate to you a report Umm Ḥabībah told me:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Whoever performs twelve rakʿahs along with the daytime obligatory prayer, Allah will build for him a house in Paradise.’” (1)’
In the same year, 236 AH, the following also passed away: Abū Ibrāhīm Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tarjumānī, in Muḥarram; al-Ḥārith ibn Surayj al-Naqqāl; Hudbah ibn Khālid al-Qaysī at the very beginning of the year; Muḥammad ibn Muqātil al-ʿAbbādānī; Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī in Baghdad; and Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn—