He died in Jumada al-Akhira of the year 283 AH, having passed the age of ninety.

He narrated only a few musnad reports, yet he was famous for his wit, rare anecdotes, and sharp intelligence.

The vizier Abū al-Ṣaqr once asked him, “What kept you from visiting us?”
He replied, “My donkey was stolen.”
The vizier asked, “And how was it stolen?”
He answered, “I was not with the thief to inform you.”
The vizier said, “Why, then, did you not come on another mount?”
He responded, “What delayed my night journey was my scant means, my dislike of the disgrace of borrowing, and the unreliability of muleteers.” (1)

It was also said that he lived ninety-two years.

143 – Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Hilāl ibn ʿUmar al-Bāhilī * (s (2))

Hilāl ibn Hilāl ibn Abī ʿAṭiyya—the ḥāfiẓ, imām, reliable transmitter, and leading scholar of al-Raqqa—Abū ʿUmar al-Bāhilī, client of the emir Qutayba ibn Muslim, a native of al-Raqqa and a man of letters.

He heard ḥadith from his father Abū Muḥammad al-ʿAlāʾ; Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad al-Aʿwar; Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab al-Qarqasānī; Ḥusayn ibn ʿAyyāsh; ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar al-Raqqī; Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī; and many others.

Those who narrated from him include al-Nasāʾī, Khaythama ibn Sulaymān, Abū Bakr al-Najjād, and al-ʿAbbās.