of Egypt, al-Ṣāḥib Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbbād, the vizier; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ilyasaʿ al-Anṭākī, the Qur’an-reciter; the judge ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Bundār al-Adhanī; the ḥadith master al-Dāraqutnī; Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn; the man of letters Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Sukkara al-Hāshimī, the poet; the Shāfiʿī shaykh Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Uwdanī, a man of distinction; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Ṭirāzī; the Ẓāhirī shaykh Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn al-Muthannā al-Baghdādī—who had heard from al-Baghawī—and Abū al-Fatḥ al-Qawwās, the ascetic.
376 – Ibn Samʿūn, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī *
The shaykh, the imām, the eminent preacher and ḥadith scholar: Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAnbas al-Baghdādī, the foremost scholar of his time in Baghdad.
Birth: 300 AH.
Samʿūn is the nickname of his grandfather Ismāʿīl.
He received ḥadith from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd—his most eminent teacher—, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad al-ʿAṭṭār, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Bakhtarī, Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn Zabbān al-Dimashqī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥudhayfah, and several others. From their transmissions he dictated twenty sessions, which we heard with an elevated chain of transmission.
Narrators from him include Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī and ʿAlī ibn Ṭalḥah, the Qur’an-reciter,