Later Life and Death
In later life, he became blind. He attributes his blindness to working late at night on the Musnad of Ahmad Ibn Hanbal in an attempt to rearrange it topically rather than by narrator.
Ibn Kathir died in 774 AH / February 1373 in Damascus.
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