34 – al-Walīd ibn Bakr ibn Makhlad ibn Abī Dubār al-Ghamrī (1)
He was the ḥadīth master (ḥāfiẓ), philologist, and leading scholar Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Ghamrī (2), an Andalusian from Zaragoza and one of the great itinerant collectors of ḥadīth.
He narrated from ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Khaṣīb by way of al-ʿAjlī’s book “Maʿrifat al-Rijāl” (Knowledge of the Men), and also from al-Ḥasan ibn Rashīq, Yūsuf al-Mayanajī, Abū Bakr al-Rabaʿī, and Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Ramlī.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Kūfī, known as Ibn ʿAmshaliq; ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd the ḥāfiẓ; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim; Abū Dharr al-Harawī; Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAtīqī; Abū Ṭālib al-ʿUshārī; Abū Saʿd al-Sammān; Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr ibn Khalaf al-Maghribī; and al-Ḥusayn ibn Jaʿfar al-Salamasī.
Ibn al-Faraḍī (3) said: “He was an authority in ḥadīth and fiqh, and a scholar of language and Arabic. Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī the grammarian held him in high regard and lavished praise upon him. It is related that during his travels he met more than one thousand shaykhs and wrote down from them.”
Al-Ḥākim said: “He resided in Naysābūr, then departed for Iraq, and returned to