—indeed, he visited it more than once and taught ḥadith there. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Shaykh said, “He came to it in 216 AH, again in 224 AH, and once more in 236 AH.”
Ibn Mukram related: “After ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, no one the like of ʿAmrū ibn ʿAlī ever came to us.”
He died at al-ʿAskar in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 249 AH.
I (the author) say: He authored works, compiled collections, and the following lofty-isnād narration of his has reached us:
The shaykh, scholar, ascetic, and foremost musnid of his time, Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad—son of the judge, the imam, the hadith scholar, Rafīʿ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾayyad al-Hamadhānī, later of Egypt—told us while I read to him, saying:
Al-Mubārak ibn Abī al-Jūd informed us in Baghdad in 620 AH; Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ṭalāyah informed us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mukhalliṣ informed us; Muḥammad ibn Hārūn narrated to us; ʿAmrū ibn ʿAlī narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, from Sufyān, from ʿĀṣim, from Zir, from ʿAbd Allah, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Days and nights will not pass away until the Arabs are ruled by a man from my household whose name matches my name.”
Al-Tirmidhī declared it authentic. (1)
122 – Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ ibn Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ al-ʿUsfurī * (Kh)
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, erudite scholar, and historian, Abū ʿAmr