He narrated from Abū Khalīfa, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muthannā, ʿAbdān, Muḥammad ibn Jarīr, and others of their rank. Those who transmitted from him include al-Ḥākim, Ibn Razqawayh, ʿAlī ibn Dāwud al-Razzāz, and a group besides.

Al-Dāraqutnī used to follow in his footsteps when selecting material on al-Shāfiʿī, and he produced on that subject a pamphlet of five quires in which he exposed his mistakes in many places where he departed from the principles of Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī. I examined that work and found it to be the effort of a heedless man: he did not understand what he was excerpting, so he corrupted wordings, omitted names from the chains of transmission, and, when nothing else served, simply deemed the transmitter weak.

Abū Muḥammad al-Sabīʿī accused him of fabrication, and Ibn Abī al-Fawāris said, “His books were poor.” Al-Ḥākim also related from ʿUmar who said, “I compared notes with Ibn ʿUqda and put before him a hadith so unusual that it confounded him.”

He died in 357 AH, and he was born in 280 AH.

127 – Mundhir ibn Saʿīd al-Ballūṭī, Abū al-Ḥakam al-Andalusī *

Chief Judge of Córdoba. He belonged to a clan called Kuzna and came from a locality near Córdoba known as Faḥṣ al-Ballūṭ (1).