Abū al-Nadr al-Fāmī judged him reliable. He died in Ramadan of the year 369 AH.
207 – Ibn Shāqilā, Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Baghdādī *
The Shaykh of the Ḥanbalīs: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥamdān ibn Shāqilā al-Baghdādī, the cloth-merchant.
He was a foremost authority in both the principles and the subsidiary branches of the law.
He heard hadith from Daʿlaj al-Sijzī and Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, and he studied jurisprudence under Abū Bakr Ghulām al-Khallāl.
Leading imams trained at his hands.
He passed away in Rajab 369 AH, at the age of fifty-four.
208 – al-Ismāʿīlī, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʿīl **
The Imām, ḥadith master, authoritative proof, jurist, Shaykh al-Islām: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Jurjānī, known as al-Ismāʿīlī, a Shāfiʿī scholar, compiler of the Ṣaḥīḥ and leading shaykh of the Shāfiʿīs.