He passed away in Ṣafar, in the year 271 AH. In the same year there also died: Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Qazzāz, Muḥammad ibn Ḥammād al-Ṭihrānī, Kurbazān al-Ḥārithī (1), and Yūsuf ibn Saʿīd ibn Muslim.
ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim informed us; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad, in my presence, informed us; ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam informed us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalab informed us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ghassānī related to us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd, the ḥāfiẓ, related to us; al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad al-Dūrī related to us; Azhar al-Sammān related to us, from Ibn ʿAwn, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, that the Prophet ﷺ said:
“O Allah, bless for us our Syria; O Allah, bless for us our Yemen.”
They said, “And our Najd?”
He replied, “There are the earthquakes and the trials, and there—or he said: from there—the horn of Satan will rise.” (2)
200 – Kaylaja, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Baghdādī *
The imām, the ḥāfiẓ, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Baghdādī, al-Anmāṭī, known as Kaylaja, was a roving traditionist. He heard ḥadith from ʿAffān ibn Muslim, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū al-Walīd, and their peers.