Shaybān. It was then proposed to him, “Let your son Muḥammad hold the judgeship while you remain the overseer.” Accordingly, he took charge of Egypt’s affairs, dispatched deputies to the provinces, assumed supervision of the endowments, and became stern and exacting.

Later the judge Abū Ṭāhir al-Dhuhlī arrived. Ibn al-Khaṣīb and his son rode out to meet him but did not find him; when al-Dhuhlī learned of their visit he failed to return the courtesy, and hostility sprang up between them. Al-Dhuhlī subsequently performed the ḥajj and returned to Damascus, where he served as its judge.

A rift then opened between Ibn al-Khaṣīb and his son, who set himself against his father until the elder eventually withdrew. The father composed a treatise in which he refuted Ibn Jarīr.

He died in Muḥarram of the year 348 AH, in his early eighties.

We find his narrations preserved in the Khilaʿiyyāt (1).

320 – al-Sindi Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn*
The venerable shaykh, the foremost musnid of his age, Abū al-Fawāris Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Sindi al-Miṣrī, known as al-Ṣābūnī.

He said, “I was born at the beginning of the year 245 AH.”

He heard hadith from Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān, Abū Ibrāhīm al-Muzanī, Bahr ibn Naṣr al-Khawlānī, Ibrāhīm ibn Marzūq, Fahd ibn Sulaymān, and many others.

Those who transmitted from him include: al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Tamīmī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥāj al-Ishbīlī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Naḥḥās, Muḥammad ibn Naẓīf al-Farrāʾ, and others.