Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Fāris and others of his rank in Iṣfahān, and from Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm in Nīshāpūr, from whom he narrated most copiously.
He was deeply devoted to ḥadīth and thoroughly versed in it; he produced a commentary on al-Talkhīṣ by Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Qāṣṣ.
Among his children were Abū Bishr al-Faḍl, Abū al-Naḍr ʿAbd Allāh, and Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAbd al-Wāsiʿ.
A number of students studied fiqh under him.
He died in Jurjān on the Day of ʿArafah and was buried on the Day of Sacrifice, in 386 AH. A group transmitted from him, among them the ḥāfiẓ Ḥamzah ibn Yūsuf al-Sahmī.
416 – Ibn Akhī Mīmī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī*
The shaykh, the truthful and reliable transmitter, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn al-Baghdādī al-Daqqāq, one of the trustworthy authorities, known as Ibn Akhī Mīmī.
He heard ḥadīth from Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq ibn Buhlul, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ḥaḍramī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Ismāʿīl al-Warraq, and several others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Ṭālib al-ʿUshārī, Abū Muḥammad ibn Hazār Mardah, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqqūr, and many others.