and Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Wāsiṭī and others recited to him. Those who transmitted from him included ʿUbayd Allah ibn Aḥmad al-Azharī, Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī, and others. He wrote a work entitled Akhbār al-Quḍāt (The Judges’ Chronicle). Al-Azharī graded him weak (1). Ibn Abī al-Fawāris said, “He used to call people to the Muʿtazilite doctrine” (2). He died in 380 AH at the age of ninety.
287 – Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥamdān, Abū Bakr al-Baghdādī *
The Imām and ḥadith transmitter: Abū Bakr al-Baghdādī, qāḍī of Dayr ʿĀqūl (3).
He narrated from his grandfather, from ʿUmar ibn Abī Ghaylān, ʿAbd Allah ibn Zaydān al-Bajalī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ushnānī.
Among those who reported from him are Abū al-Qāsim al-Azharī, Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl, ʿAlī ibn al-Muḥassin, and Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī.
His grandfather transmitted from ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād al-Narṣī.
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 380 AH.
Al-Khallāl considered him trustworthy.