Among those who narrated from him were al-Ḥākim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAtīqī, Abū Isḥāq al-Barmakī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Barhān the Weaver, and others.
Al-Tanūkhī declared him reliable.
He also taught hadith in Baghdad.
He was born in 293 AH in Nasā, and he died there in 374 AH.
262 – Al-Bahīrī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar
The shaykh and imām, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Nūḥ ibn Baḥīr al-Naysābūrī, known as al-Bahīrī.
He heard hadith from Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥāfiẓ, from the “Imam of the Imams” Ibn Khuzayma, from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Thaqafī, and from several others.
When he reached Baghdad he met Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Baghandī, al-Baghawī, and a number of other scholars.
He established a dictation session, and Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim wrote down what he dictated.
Those who narrated from him include al-Ḥākim, his grandson Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Bahīrī, ʿUmar ibn Masrūr, and others.
He passed away in 375 AH.
A small fascicle containing some of his ʿawālī (upper-chain transmissions) has reached us.