He passed away in the year 267 AH. I add: he was in his eighties.
In that same year there also died: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh Samūyah; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Saʿdī; Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm, the Persian, Shādhān; Baḥr ibn Naṣr al-Khawlānī; ʿAbbās al-Turqufī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAzīz al-Aylī; Yūnus ibn Ḥabīb al-Iṣfahānī; and Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad al-Dhuhlī, known as Ḥaykān.
226 – Aḥmad ibn Yūnus ibn al-Musayyab ibn Zuhayr ibn ʿAmr al-Kūfī*
The Imām, traditionist, and exemplar, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Ḍabbī, al-Kūfī—first cousin of Baghdad’s hadith scholar Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr al-Ḍabbī, teacher of al-Baghawī, and one of the senior authorities—who later took up residence in Isfahān.
He transmitted hadith from: Jaʿfar ibn ʿAwn; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bakr al-Sahmī; Ḥajjāj al-Aʿwar; Muḥāḍir ibn al-Muwarriʿ; Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd; Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd; Aswad ibn ʿĀmir; Yūnus ibn Muḥammad; Yazīd ibn Hārūn; Rūḥ ibn ʿUbādah; Kathīr ibn Hishām; Abū al-Naḍr; Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā; ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Fāris; Abū Mushir al-Ghassānī—and their peers.
Those who narrated from him include: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣaffār, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣam, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Fāris, and a number of others.
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said, “His standing is that of truthfulness.” (1)