He died in his native village of Bālūz, which lies three parasangs from the city of Nasā—may Allah Most High have mercy on him. (1)

Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allah ibn Tāj al-Umanāʾ—by his audition of al-Ḥasan’s Forty—related to us, from al-Muʾayyad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī and Zaynab daughter of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥasan al-Shaʿrī. They said: “Umm al-Khayr Fāṭimah daughter of ʿAlī ibn Zaʿbal informed us in the year 531 AH; she said: Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī informed us in the year 441 AH; he said: Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān informed us in the month of Ṣafar, 374 AH; he said: Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān the ḥāfiẓ narrated to us; he said: Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us; he said: al-Layth narrated to us, from ʿUqayl, from al-Zuhrī, from Sālim, from his father:

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, ‘A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim; he neither wrongs him nor abandons him. Whoever attends to his brother’s need, Allah will attend to his need; whoever relieves a Muslim of a distress, Allah will relieve one of his distresses on the Day of Resurrection; and whoever conceals the faults of a Muslim, Allah will conceal his faults on the Day of Resurrection.’ (2)

Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and al-Nasāʾī also transmitted this ḥadith from Qutaybah, and our chain to him is of higher rank than theirs.

With this same isnād reaching al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Bayān al-Sukkārī related to us, saying: “Hushaym narrated to us, from Shuʿbah, from ʿAdī ibn Thābit, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn—”