He wrote extensively, gathered and compiled works, and transmitted one thousand hadiths from one thousand teachers. He would preach and give the adhān, and he died having passed the age of eighty.

ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qāsim ibn Abī Muḥammad al-Khallāl (1) was the last person to relate hadith from Abū Ḥafṣ al-Kattānī (2). He had heard a vast amount, and al-Khaṭīb transmitted from him and deemed him reliable. He died at the age of eighty-five and was buried at Bāb Ḥarb; may Allah have mercy on him.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm (3), Abū al-Qāsim, son of Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Mandah—the imam, son of an imam—outstripped his father, Ibn Mardawayh, and many others in the various lands to which he travelled. He assembled an enormous collection of hadith. Dignified and well-mannered, firmly committed to the Sunnah, and possessed of keen understanding, he was constant in enjoining right and forbidding wrong, fearing no reproach for Allah’s sake.

Saʿd ibn Muḥammad al-Zanjānī used to say, “Allah preserved Islam through him and through ʿAbd Allah al-Anṣārī al-Harawī (4).”

This Ibn Mandah died in Isfahan at the age of eighty-seven. An untold multitude attended his funeral—known only to Allah, exalted is He. May Allah Most High have mercy on him.

ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Ghaffār (5) ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn ʿAlī (6), Abū al-Qāsim al-Hamadhānī, was one of the ḥuffāẓ, a saintly jurist, and was nicknamed Bunjīr (7). He heard a great deal [and was particularly accommodating to students, reading texts for them]. He passed away this year in Rayy and was buried beside Ibrāhīm al-Khawwāṣ.