Those who narrated from him included his son al-Muḥassin (1), Abū Ḥafṣ al-Ājurri, and Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Thallāj.
He was exceptionally intelligent; within a single day and night he memorized six hundred verses (2), and he authored several works.
Caliph al-Muṭīʿ even contemplated appointing him Chief Judge (3).
When he died in Basra, al-Muhallabī settled on his behalf a debt of fifty thousand dirhams (4)(5).
His son said: “He had memorized six hundred odes by the two Ṭāʾī poets (6), possessed an enormous store of knowledge in grammar, lexicography, and the rational sciences (7), and could answer questions concerning more than twenty thousand hadiths (8).”
He died in 342 AH.
282 – al-Sayyārī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Qāsim ibn al-Qāsim*
The imam, hadith scholar, and ascetic, the shaykh of Marw, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Qāsim ibn al-Qāsim (9) ibn
(1) His biography is found in Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-ayan, vol. 4, pp. 159–162 (entry 445).
(2) See al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 12, pp. 78–79.
(3) Yaqut, Muʿjam al-udaba, vol. 14, p. 164.
(4) See p. 116, note 4 of this volume.
(5) Muʿjam al-udaba, vol. 14, p. 164.
(6) Muʿjam al-udaba reads “seven hundred.”
(7) The base manuscript has al-Uqaylat, a scribal mistake.
(8) Muʿjam al-udaba, vol. 14, pp. 164–165.
(*) Additional sources: al-Sulami, Tabaqat al-sufiya, pp. 440–447; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-awliya, vol. 10, p. 380; al-Qushayri, al-Risala al-qushayriya, p. 28; al-Samʿani, al-Ansab, vol. 7, pp. 212–213; Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Muntazam, vol. 6, p. 374; al-Dhahabi, al-Ibar, vol. 2, p. 260; Ibn al-Mulaqqin, Tabaqat al-awliya, pp. 366–367; Ibn Taghribirdi, al-Nujum al-zahira, vol. 3, pp. 309–310; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-dhahab, vol. 2, p. 364.
(9) Al-Ansab, vol. 7, p. 212, records the name as “al-Qasim ibn Abi al-Qasim ibn Abd Allah ibn Mahdi.”