ibn Buraydah al-Azdī al-Mawṣilī, author of the work al-Ḍuʿafāʾ, a single—but very large—volume.
He related ḥadith from Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣūfī, Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zaydān al-Bajalī, ʿAlī ibn Zāṭiyā, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Isḥāq al-Madāʾinī, Ṭarīf ibn ʿUbayd Allāh—the companion of ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd—ʿAbbād ibn ʿAlī al-Sīrīnī, Ismāʿīl al-Ḥāsib, Ḥamdān ibn ʿAmr al-Warrāq al-Mawṣilī, ʿAlī ibn Sirāj, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bāghandī, al-Haytham ibn Khalaf al-Dūrī, Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, and their peers.
Those who transmitted from him include the ḥadith master Abū Nuʿaym, Abū Isḥāq al-Barmakī, Aḥmad ibn al-Fatḥ ibn Farghān, and others.
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb said: “He was a ḥāfiẓ.” He composed works on the sciences of ḥadith. I asked al-Barqānī about him, and he judged him weak. Abū al-Najīb ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Urmawī told me: “I saw the people of Mosul disparaging Abū al-Fath and counting him as of no standing.” (1)
Al-Khaṭīb also said: “There are repudiated reports in his narrations.” (2)
I say: His book al-Ḍuʿafāʾ contains a number of faults, for he declared several narrators weak without any proof—indeed, others had judged them reliable.
He died in Shawwāl of the year 374 AH.