He was born in 306 AH. He heard hadith from Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi, Yahya ibn Saʿid, and Abu Saʿid al-ʿAdawi. Those who narrated from him include Abu al-Hasan al-ʿAtiqi, Abu al-Qasim al-Azhari, Abu Muhammad al-Khallal, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Naqqur, and others; he lived to a great age.
Al-Azhari said, “He amounts to nothing. I was present while the book Diwan al-Anwaʾ, which he had compiled, was being read to him. Ibn al-Abanusi said to me, ‘This is not his own audition; he simply saw, on a copy, a heading that bore a name identical to his and laid claim to it.’” (1)
Al-ʿAtiqi remarked, “He was suspected of Shiʿite leanings, though he possessed fine original manuscripts.” (2)
He died in Jumada al-Akhira, 396 AH.
408 – al-Muʾammal ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Abu al-Qasim al-Shaybani *
The shaykh, noted for his truthfulness: Abu al-Qasim al-Shaybani, the Baghdadi cloth-merchant.
He settled in Egypt and transmitted hadith from Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi, Abu Bakr ibn Abi Dawud, Yahya ibn Saʿid, Abu Hamid al-Hadrami, and a number of others.
Among those who narrated from him were Yusuf ibn Rabah, Abu al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Makki, and many others. Al-Khatib judged him reliable.