Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi said, “He died in the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal, in the year 244 AH.”
I (the author) add: “He lived eighty-six years.”
Ahmad ibn Hibat Allah informed us, on the authority of al-Qasim ibn ʿAbd Allah; Wajih ibn Tahir informed us; Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri, Yaʿqub ibn Ahmad, and Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahim likewise told us, saying:
Abu al-Husayn al-Khaffaf informed us; Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Thaqafi narrated to us; Mujahid ibn Musa narrated to us; Yazid narrated to us; Hisham reported, from Yahya ibn Abi Kathir, from ʿAbd Allah ibn Abi Qatadah, from his father:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would recite in the first two rakʿahs of the noon (zuhr) prayer, sometimes letting us hear a verse, and he would lengthen the first rakʿah and shorten the second. He did the same in the first two rakʿahs of the ʿasr prayer (1).
134 – Abu Hassān al-Ziyadi, al-Hasan ibn ʿUthman ibn Hammad *
The imam, eminent scholar, ḥāfiẓ, historian of the age, and judge of Baghdad: al-Hasan ibn ʿUthman ibn Hammad al-Baghdadi, known as al-Ziyadi because his grandfather married a bondwoman who had belonged to the governor Ziyad ibn Abihi.
Judge Abu Hassān was born around the year 160 AH.
He heard hadith from Ismaʿil ibn Jaʿfar, Ibrahim ibn Saʿd, and Hushaym ibn Bashir,