This is a singular ḥadith, transmitted solely by ʿAbd al-Aʿlā (1), and he is weak.
Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Ahmad ibn Muʾmin, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Faḍl, and Ahmad ibn Isḥāq al-Hamadhānī informed us, saying:
Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid al-Ṣaffār at al-Mizzah narrated to us; the jurist Abū al-Fatḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Miṣṣīṣī and Hibat Allāh ibn Ṭāwūs related to us; they both said:
Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ reported to us; Ibn Abī Naṣr narrated to us; Khaythamah narrated to us; Ahmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bartī narrated to us; Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm informed us; al-Ḥasan said:
“They used to feel too shy to mention Allah Most High unless they were in a state of ritual purity.”
Those who died in the same year were: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUqbah al-Shaybānī; ʿAlī ibn al-Faḍl al-Suttūrī in Sāmarrāʾ; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAttāb; the ruler of Khurāsān, Nūḥ ibn Naṣr; Abū Bakr Mukram ibn Ahmad al-Bazzāz; and Ahmad ibn Zakariyyā ibn al-Shāmah al-Andalusī.
231 – Al-Farābī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhān*
The master of philosophy, the sage: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhān ibn Awzlagh the Turk, known as al-Farābī the logician, one of the exceptionally gifted minds.