al-Ākhirah in the year 246 AH, and he remained judge until he passed away in Dhu al-Ḥijjah, 270 AH.
It is said that an immense crowd followed his bier—more people than normally attend the ʿId prayer—and the funeral prayer over him was led by his nephew Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah al-Thaqafī, may Allah Most High have mercy on him.
I (the author) say: he lived for eighty-nine years.
In that same year there also died: Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn, the ruler of Egypt; Ibrāhīm ibn Marzūq; Usayd ibn ʿĀṣim; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAffān; al-Rabīʿ al-Murādī; Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Marwazī; ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd ibn Mazīd; Muḥammad ibn Muslim ibn Wārah; Muḥammad ibn Hishām ibn Milās; Muḥammad ibn Māhān—his companion; Aḥmad ibn al-Miqdām al-Harawī; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Barqī; Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī; Abū Bakr al-Daghānī; and Abū al-Bakhtarī ibn Shākir.
ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim informed us; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad narrated to us in person in the year 609 AH; ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam informed us; Ibn Ṭallāb informed us; Ibn Jumayʿ informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Nuʿmān of Ṣūr narrated to us; Bakkār ibn Qutaybah narrated to us; Abū Muṭarrif ibn Abī al-Wazīr narrated to us; Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from his father, from Shaybah the custodian of the Kaʿbah, from his uncle—meaning ʿUthmān ibn Ṭalḥah—reported that the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said:
“Three things will secure for you your brother’s sincere affection: greet him with salām when you meet him, make room for him in a gathering, and call him by the name he loves most.” (1)