and a few months, and he died this year at the age of seventy-two. The cause of his death was that he had himself bled, whereupon his arm swelled until he passed away. May Allah, Exalted is He, have mercy on him.
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The ḥadīth master ʿAbd al-Ghani ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd ibn Bishr ibn Marwān ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (1), Abū Muḥammad al-Azdī of Egypt. He was thoroughly versed in ḥadīth and its sciences and authored many renowned works on the subject.
Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ṣūrī, himself a ḥāfiẓ, said, “My eyes have never seen anyone his equal in this field.”
Al-Dāraqutnī said, “In Egypt I found no one like a young man called ʿAbd al-Ghani; he was like a tongue of fire,” and he proceeded to exalt him and extol his reputation.
This same ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghani wrote a book identifying the mistakes of al-Ḥākim (2). When al-Ḥākim reviewed it, he read it aloud to the people, acknowledged ʿAbd al-Ghani’s merit, thanked him for the service, and retracted the points the latter had corrected. May Allah have mercy on them both.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghani was born two nights before the end of Dhu al-Qaʿdah 332 AH and died in Ṣafar of this same year. May Allah Most High show him mercy. -
Muḥammad, son of the Commander of the Faithful al-Qādir bi-Allah (3), whose kunya was Abū al-Faḍl. His father had appointed him heir apparent; coins were struck in his name, the Friday preachers mentioned him from the pulpits, and he was granted the honorific al-Ghālib bi-Allah. Yet it was not decreed for him to succeed, and he died this year at the age of twenty-seven.
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Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Yazīd (4), Abū al-Fatḥ al-Bazzāz al-Ṭarsūsī, also known as Ibn al-Baṣrī. He received ḥadīth from many shaykhs, and al-Ṣūrī heard from him while staying in Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem). He was trustworthy and dependable. May Allah Most High have mercy on him and on all of us.