and Abū Zurʿa Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Rāzī; al-Muʿafā al-Jarīrī; Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-Furāt; Abū al-Faḍl Naṣr ibn Abī Naṣr al-Ṭūsī, the perfumer; Abū ʿUmar ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mahdī al-Fārisī; and others.

He was known for learning, piety, truthfulness, and tireless dedication to the pursuit of knowledge. His life was long, his name widely celebrated, and—together with the judge al-Maḥāmilī—he came to be regarded as the pre-eminent authority in Baghdad.

Al-Dāraquṭnī was asked about him and replied, “He is trustworthy and reliable.” (1)

I (the author) say: he died in the month of Jumada al-Ākhira in the year 331 AH, at the age of ninety-eight.

In that same year there also passed away: the preacher and muhaddith Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jaṣṣāṣ, the supplicant; the senior transmitter Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, son of the ḥāfiẓ Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah al-Sadūsi al-Baghdādī; and the musnid of Kūfa, Hannād ibn al-Sarī the Younger, who narrated from Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj—and from the Basran musnid, the long-lived Abū Rūq Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Bakr al-Ḥazzānī.

Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us; al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Salām informed us; Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzāz informed us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿĪsā dictated to us, saying:

“It was read aloud before Muḥammad ibn Makhlad while I was listening. He was asked: ‘Did Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Qazzāz relate this to you?’ He replied, ‘Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated to us that Bahz ibn Ḥakīm ibn Muʿāwiya ibn Ḥaydah—meaning, he related it to them—from his father, from his grandfather: that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Whoever conceals his wealth so as to evade the obligatory charity, we shall take it from him along with half of his property.”’” (2)