and from him transmitted: Jaʿfar al-Khuldī, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Ṭastī, Abū Bakr al-Ājurī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, Ḥabīb al-Qazzāz, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bukhayt, and others. Al-Dāraqutnī judged him trustworthy.
Al-Khaṭīb relates that this ʿUkbarī owned thirty rings and thirty walking sticks; each day he would wear one ring and carry one stick. He was counted among the refined and dignified men of Baghdad (1).
He died in 296 AH.
In that same year also died: Aḥmad ibn Najdah al-ʿUryān al-Harawī (2); Aḥmad ibn Ḥammād Zugbah al-Tujībī (3); Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥulwānī, Abū Jaʿfar; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muʿtazz (4); Abū Ḥuṣayn al-Wādiʿī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn (5); Abū Shihāb Muʿammar ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī; Yūsuf ibn Mūsā al-Qaṭṭān al-Ṣaghīr (6); Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr al-Qaṭrānī (7); and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Nāfiʿ al-Taḥḥān of Egypt.