Ibn al-Munādī (1) said: No one related more from his father than he did. He heard from him al-Musnad—30,000 traditions—and the Tafsīr—120,000 ḥadiths, some of them by direct audition and some by written transmission (2). In addition he received Al-Nāsikh wa-l-mansūkh (The Abrogating and the Abrogated), Al-Muqaddam wa-l-muʾakhkhar fī Kitāb Allāh (What Comes First and What Comes Later in the Book of Allah), Al-Tārīkh (The History), Ḥadīth Shuʿbah, Jawābāt al-Qurʾān (Responses of the Qur’an), Al-Manāsik al-Kabīr (The Major Treatise on the Rites of Pilgrimage) and Al-Manāsik al-Ṣaghīr, together with other compilations and the reports of many shaykhs.
He also said (3): We have continually seen our senior teachers testify to his mastery of transmitter criticism, the subtle defects in ḥadith, personal names and kunyas, and to his tireless quest for ḥadith in Iraq and elsewhere. They report that their predecessors acknowledged the same, to the point that some of them went to extremes in praising his expertise and in asserting that he had heard more ḥadiths than his father.
When he fell ill he was asked, “Where would you like to be buried?” He replied, “It has been established for me that a prophet is buried in al-Qaṭīʿah (4), and to be near a prophet is dearer to me than to be beside my father (5).”
He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of this year at the age of seventy-seven—the very age at which his father died. The funeral gathering was extraordinarily large; his nephew Zuhayr led the prayer over him, and he was laid to rest in the cemetery of al-Tibn. May Allah have mercy on him.
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd, Abū Baḥr al-Rabāṭī al-Marwazī, was a companion of Abū Turāb al-Nakhshabī, and al-Junayd praised and commended him (6).
ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm, Abū Bakr, the ḥāfiẓ known as Abū al-Ādhān, was trustworthy and well established (7).
Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Faraj, Abū Maysarah al-Hamdānī, compiler of the Musnad, was one of the renowned trustworthy authorities and a fair-minded author (8).
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Abū Bakr al-Zaqāq (9), was among the leading imams of the Sufis and their devout worshippers. It is related from al-Junayd that he said, “I saw…"