Among his other writings are: The Creation of Man; The Creation of the Horse; The Book of Proverbs; al-Maqsūr wa-l-Mamdūd (Short and Long Vowels); Gharib al-Hadith (Uncommon Expressions in Hadith); and several additional works.
He died in 304 AH.
His learned son, Abū Bakr, passed away in Baghdad on the night of ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā in 328 AH, at the age of fifty-seven.
In that same year there also died: the scholar Abū ʿUmar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Rabbih al-Qurṭubī, author of The Book of the Necklace, aged eighty-two; the senior Shāfiʿī authority Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yazīd al-Iṣṭakhrī in Baghdad, a little over eighty; the Iraqi Qurʾān-reciter Abū ʾl-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Shanabūdh; the Shaykh of the Sufis, Abū Muḥammad al-Murtaʿish, in Baghdad; and the vizier Abū ʿAlī ibn Muqla.
The following figures likewise passed away that year: the musnid of Nīshāpūr, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sharqī; the musnid of Damascus, Abū ʾl-Dahdāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tamīmī; the musnid of Baghdad, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Jawzajānī, at ninety-three; the scholar and exemplar of Nīshāpūr, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Thaqafī; and al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn al-Muṭbaqī in Baghdad, one of Ibn Jumayʿ’s teachers.
Musallam ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAllānī related to us in his book, saying: Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad related to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Muhtadī bi-llāh related to us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn al-Qāsim related to us; Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Anbārī related to us; Muḥammad ibn Yūnus related to us; Abū ʿAttāb al-Dallāl related to us; al-Mukhtār ibn Nāfiʿ related to us; Abū Ḥayyān al-Taymī related to us, from his father, from ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him):
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “May Allah have mercy on Abū Bakr: he married me to his daughter, conveyed me to the Abode of Emigration, and set Bilāl free. May Allah have mercy on ʿUmar: he speaks the truth even when it is bitter; yet the truth left him and he had no …”