among the hadith specialists.

He made his way to Egypt and was granted audience with al-Ikhshīd; from there he continued on to Damascus. When the people there discovered his doctrinal leanings, they drove him away, and he escaped in flight.

Ibn Shāhīn said: I, Ibn al-Muẓaffar, and al-Dāraqutnī entered upon Ibn al-Jiʿābī while he was ill. I asked him, “Who am I?” He replied, “Glory be to Allah! Are you not So-and-so and So-and-so?”—and he named us. We supplicated for him and departed, but after we had walked only a few steps we heard the caller announcing his death and saw his books reduced to a mound of ashes.

Al-Azharī said: Sukaynah—the professional mourner of the Rāfiḍīs—was wailing at his funeral. (1)

Abū Nuʿaym said: Al-Jiʿābī arrived in Isfahan and narrated there in the year 349 AH. (2)

Isḥāq ibn Ṭāriq informed us—he was informed by Ibn Khalīl—who was informed by Abū al-Makārim al-Taymī—who was informed by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād—who was informed by Abū Nuʿaym—who narrated from Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Salm—who narrated from Muḥammad ibn al-Nuʿmān—who narrated from Hudbah—who narrated from Ḥazm ibn Abī Ḥazm, who said: I heard al-Ḥasan say, “What a miserable companion the dinar and the dirham are! They will not benefit you until they part company with you.”

I (al-Khaṭīb) say: He died in Rajab of the year 355 AH.

70 – Ibn Ḥibbān, Muḥammad ibn Ḥibbān ibn Aḥmad al-Tamīmī

The Imām, the erudite scholar, the ḥadīth master, the meticulous critic, the shaykh of Khurasan, Abū Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn Ḥibbān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥibbān ibn Muʿādh ibn Maʿbad ibn Sahīd ibn Hadiyyah