Doing Good, The Friends of Allah, The Night Vigil, Reliance upon Allah, Hunger, Having Good Expectations of Allah, Living in Obscurity, Humility, The Condemnation of Transgression, The Condemnation of This World, The Condemnation of Amusements, Being Pleased with Allah and Patient with His Decree, Softness of Heart and Weeping, Gratitude, Patience, Divine Majesty, Punishments, Contentment, Taking Oneself to Account, The Schemes of Satan(1), Worry and Grief, Voices from the Unseen, Trembling Fear, Pious Restraint, and Certainty.
His Death:
The hadith master Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā died in Baghdad on 14 Jumādā I 281 AH. The funeral prayer was led by Judge Yūsuf ibn Ya'qūb al-Basrī, and he was buried in al-Shūnīziyyah(2). May clouds of mercy and divine pleasure rain upon him.
His Biographers:
Numerous scholars wrote biographical entries on the hadith master Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā. The following are those I have been able to identify:
Ibn Abī Hātim al-Rāzī, Abd al-Rahmān ibn Muhammad (d. 327 AH), in al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dīl (Hadith-Narrator Criticism and Accreditation), 5/163.
Al-Mas'ūdī, Alī ibn al-Husayn (d. 346 AH), in Murūj al-Dhahab (Meadows of Gold), 4/183.