Ibn Abī Ḥātim (1) deemed him trustworthy and dubbed him “the preserver of the reports of al-Zuhrī and Mālik.”
Abū al-Shaykh said: “He died in 291 AH in Rayy.” Al-Khalīlī, on the other hand, dated his death to 288 AH and added, “He was the guardian of Mālik’s knowledge, a man of religion.”
I say: the sounder opinion is that he died at the end of 291 AH.
In that same year several scholars passed away, among them: the Meccan Qurʾān-reciter Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jurjah, known as Qunbul al-Makkī, in the tenth decade of the century; and the Damascus reciter Hārūn ibn Mūsā ibn Sharīk al-Dimashqī al-Akhfash, a student of Ibn Dhakwān.
8 – Hārūn ibn Khumarawayh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn al-Turkī *
The ruler, lord of Egypt, Abū Mūsā.
He seized power after his brother Jaysh (2) was deposed. His uncle Rabīʿah ibn Aḥmad gathered an army and advanced from Alexandria. They met in battle; a number of men were killed, Rabīʿah’s horse was wounded and he fell, so they captured him,