He died in the month of Shaʿbān, in the year 294 AH, at the age of eighty.
I possess several high-level isnāds from him and from his father as well.
Al-Sharīf Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAlawī in Alexandria informed us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar in Baghdad informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Mujallad informed us; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Zaynabī informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhlis narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baghawī narrated to us; Hārūn ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; Muḥāḍir ibn al-Muwarraʿ narrated to us; al-Aʿmash narrated to us, from al-Musayyab ibn Rāfiʿ, from Tamīm ibn Ṭarafah, from Jābir ibn Samurah, who said:
“The Prophet ﷺ entered while we were sitting in separate circles in the mosque and said, ‘Why do I see you scattered (1)?’”
Through this same chain all the way to al-Baghawī: Hārūn ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; Muḥāḍir and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Asadī narrated to us—they said: al-Aʿmash narrated to us, from al-Musayyab, from Tamīm, from Jābir, who said:
“The Prophet ﷺ came in and said, ‘What is wrong with you that you do not form rows as the angels do before their Lord?’ He then said, ‘They complete the front rows and close the gaps in the line (2).’”
Yaḥyā ibn Abī Manṣūr, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, and ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad—the three Hanbalis—together with a group, informed us in writing; they said: ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad informed us