Among the notable figures who died in that same year were:
Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥārith (1), Abū al-Qāsim al-Kilābī, a follower of the Shāfiʿī school. He received ḥadīth from al-Ḥārith ibn Miskīn (2) and others, and he was a righteous man. He pursued legal studies (3) according to the Shāfiʿī madhhab, and (4) he was fond of solitude and reserve. He passed away in Shaʿbān of that year.
Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣūfī (5), one of the long-lived and prolific teachers of ḥadīth.
Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Surayj (6), Abū al-ʿAbbās, the judge of Shīrāz, the author of about four hundred works (7). He was (8) among the foremost imams of the Shāfiʿī school and was nicknamed al-bāz al-ashhab (the Grey Falcon). He studied fiqh under Abū al-Qāsim al-Anmāṭī (9) and under the direct companions of al-Shāfiʿī, such as al-Muzanī (10) and others. Through him the Shāfiʿī school spread far and wide. We have already given his biography in “Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah,” which should suffice.
He died in Jumādā I of that same year at the age of fifty-seven years and six months—may Allah have mercy upon him. Ibn Khallikān said: He died on Monday, the twenty-fifth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, at the age of fifty-seven years and six months (11), and his grave is visited—may Allah have mercy upon him (12).
(1) al-Muntaẓim, vol. 6, p. 148.
(2) He served as a judge in Egypt, was a reliable jurist, and died in 250 AH. See Mulhaq Qudat Misr (Appendix to the Judges of Egypt), pp. 502–505.
(3) In the manuscript copies: thiqah (reliable), a reading confirmed by the printed edition.
(4) In the printed edition, enclosed between double crescent symbols.
(5) Tarikh Baghdad (History of Baghdad), vol. 4, pp. 82–86; Tabaqat al-Hanabila (Biographical Dictionary of the Hanabilah), vol. 1, pp. 36–37; al-Muntaẓim, vol. 6, p. 149; Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’ (Lives of the Noble Scholars), vol. 14, pp. 152–153; Mizan al-I‘tidal (The Scale of Moderation), vol. 1, p. 91; al-Wafi bil-Wafayat (The Sufficient in Obituaries), vol. 6, p. 305; Lisan al-Mizan (The Tongue of the Balance), vol. 1, pp. 151–153; Shudhurat adh-Dhahab (Fragments of Gold), vol. 2, p. 247.
(6) Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 4, pp. 287–290; Tabaqat al-Fuqaha’ lil-Shirazi (Classes of Jurists by al-Shirazi), pp. 108–109; al-Muntaẓim, vol. 6, pp. 149–150; Wafayat al-A‘yan (Obituaries of the Notables), vol. 1, pp. 66–67; Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’, vol. 14, pp. 201–204; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz (Memoir of the Memorisers), vol. 3, pp. 811–813; Tabaqat al-Shafi‘iyya li al-Subki (Classes of the Shafi‘is by al-Subki), vol. 3, pp. 21–39.
(7) In the printed edition: wa-sunf (and he authored).
(8) In the printed edition, enclosed between double crescent symbols.
(9) His biography has already appeared under the death entries for 288 AH in this work.
(10) His biography has already appeared under the death entries for 264 AH in this work.
(11) In the printed edition: “three months,” which is a corruption.
(12) Wafayat al-A‘yan, vol. 1, p. 67.