He also produced Akhbār al-Shuʿarāʾ in five thousand folios, and another, far larger, anthology on the poets that filled some thirty volumes. ʿAḍud al-Dawla once rewarded him with one thousand dinars.
332 – al-Dāraquṭnī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad*
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, consummate critic, Shaykh al-Islam, and standard-bearer of the master experts: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Mahdī ibn Masʿūd ibn al-Nuʿmān ibn Dīnār ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī, the Qurʾān reciter and hadith scholar from the Dār al-Quṭn quarter of Baghdad.
He was born in 306 AH, as he himself attested.
While still a boy he heard hadith from: Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, Muḥammad ibn Nayrūz al-Anmāṭī, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Ḥaḍramī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mubashshir al-Wāsiṭī, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Mālikī, Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Zakariyyā al-Muḥāribī, Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb the judge, Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād al-Naysābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAdawī al-Baṣrī, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Naysābūrī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Adamī, and ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Dayrabī.