He heard hadith from al-Kudaymī, Bishr ibn Mūsā, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim al-Rawwās, and others of their standing.

Those who narrated from him include al-Dāraqutnī, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Munḏir, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥammāmī, and many more.

He passed away in Mosul in 358 AH.

Al-Khaṭīb said: “He was trustworthy and upright.”

95 – Ibn al-ʿAmīd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Kātib*

The great vizier, Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Kātib, vizier to the ruler Rukn al-Dawlah al-Ḥasan ibn Būwayh the Daylamite.

He was an unrivaled master of correspondence, composition, and eloquence—people used him as a touchstone and called him “the second Jāḥiẓ.”

It was said: “Authorship began with ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd and concluded with Ibn al-ʿAmīd.”

The poet al-Mutanabbī (1) praised him, and he rewarded the poet with three thousand dinars.

For all the breadth of his accomplishments, he knew nothing of the Sacred Law; he was philosophically inclined and suspected of adhering to the doctrines of the ancient philosophers.