He also transmitted the reading of ʿĀṣim through Muhammad ibn al-Jahm al-Sammari, and from him it was learned by Ibn Abī Hāshim and Abū Bakr al-Shadhaʾī.

Al-Dāraqutnī said, “He is a fabricator.” (1) He then told an anecdote that demonstrates his unreliability. (2)

Al-Sulamī reports on the authority of al-Dāraqutnī that he judged him “weak.” (3)

He held the post of judge in several districts of Syria. He was appointed judge in Baghdad for three days and was then dismissed. (4)

He had already been narrating while still a young man in the days of al-Ḥarbī, (5) and he lived to the age of eighty.

He died in Dhū al-Ḥijja of the year 339 AH—may Allah pardon him.

229 – Ibn al-Aʿrābī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād ibn Bishr *

The Imām, traditionist, exemplar, truthful ḥāfiẓ, Shaykh al-Islām: Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Aʿrābī al-Baṣrī, the Sufi, long-time resident of Mecca and shaykh of the Sacred Sanctuary.