177 – al-Bāqarḥī* Abū ʿAlī Makhlad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Makhlad
The shaykh, truthful, and long-lived: Abū ʿAlī Makhlad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Makhlad ibn Sahl al-Fārisī, al-Bāqarḥī, known as al-Daqqāq.
He heard (hadith) from Yūsuf al-Qāḍī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Marwazī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAllawiyyah al-Qaṭṭān, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥulwānī, Abū’l-ʿAbbās ibn Masrūq, and Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Bakhtarī al-Ḥannāʾī; he has a recorded catalogue of additional shaykhs.
Those who narrated from him include Abū’l-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Fawāris, Abū’l-ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Wāsiṭī, the ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Bukayr, Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAllāf, and others.
Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Bādī said: “He was trustworthy, his auditions were sound, except that he understood nothing of hadith.” (1)
Ibn Abī al-Fawāris said: “He possessed many source manuscripts from Yūsuf al-Qāḍī and Jaʿfar al-Firyābī—fine copies in his own handwriting.”
Abū Nuʿaym said: “News reached us that he became confused after I left.”
Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Furāt said: “Makhlad’s foundational texts were sound, but toward the end of his life his son induced him to claim the transmission of certain works—among them al-Maghāzī from al-Marwazī, al-Mubtadaʾ from Ibn ʿAllawiyyah, and al-Ṭabarī’s Great History—whereupon he grew greedy…"