he was summoned from Marw to the royal court in Bukhara so that he might teach there, but death overtook him in the wilderness in 370 AH.
Musallam ibn ʿAllān informed us; al-Kindī informed us; Abū Manṣūr al-Qazzāz informed us; al-Khaṭīb informed us; Abū Nuʿaym informed us; Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Ḥusayn Ghundar narrated to us; Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd at al-Raqqah narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAyshūn informed us; Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Abī Dāwūd narrated to us; Dāwūd ibn al-Zibraqān—from Maṭar al-Warrāq, from Hārūn ibn ʿAntarah, from ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Sāʾib, from Zādhān, from Ibn Masʿūd—reported from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: “The loss of sight is forgiveness for sins, the loss of hearing is forgiveness for sins, and whatever part of the body is diminished brings forgiveness in proportion to that.” (1)
It is extremely singular.
146 – Ghundar, Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Durrān al-Baghdādī *
The traditionist, ascetic, Sufi wayfarer Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Durrān al-Baghdādī, known as Ghundar, a long-time resident of Egypt.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī, Abū Yaʿlā, and Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Mukharramī.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Dāraquṭnī, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Kattānī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Naḥḥās, and others.