He also authored the Book of Legal Stratagems (al-Ḥiyal) (1); the Large Book of Legal Clauses (al-Shurūṭ al-Kabīr), which he later abridged; the Book of Breast-Feeding; Judicial Etiquette; Grape Juice and Its Legal Rulings; The Rulings of Endowments; and The Measurements of the Kaʿba, the Mosque, and the Prophet’s Grave.

He was remembered for his asceticism and scrupulousness, and it is reported that he supported himself by the work of his own hands—may Allah have mercy on him. He transmitted very little hadith, and when he died he was nearly eighty years old.

He passed away in Baghdad in 261 AH.

63 – Ibn al-Mudabbir, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ḍabbī *
The eminent minister Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Mudabbir al-Ḍabbī was one of the leading prose stylists and poets of his age; he served as vizier to al-Muʿtamid. He was the brother of Aḥmad ibn al-Mudabbir and Muḥammad.

Among those who transmitted from him are ʿAlī al-Akhfash, Jaʿfar ibn Qudāma, Abū Bakr al-Ṣūlī, and others. None of the secretaries skilled in epistolary composition could equal him in his craft or breadth of learning, and he remained exalted