His son governed after him for twelve years, and the Buyid realm began to shrink. Some, however, say that Bahāʾ al-Dawlah’s reign lasted twenty-two years and two days.
107 – al-Mujbir Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā*
The leading ḥadith authority of Baghdad, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Ṣalt ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Mālik ibn Saʿd ibn Qays ibn ʿAbd Shuraḥbīl ibn Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn ʿAbd al-Dār ibn Quṣayy ibn Kilāb al-Qurashī, al-ʿAbdarī, al-Baghdādī, al-Jarāʾiḥī—known as al-Mujbir.
He was born in 314 AH.
He heard ḥadith from: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Hāshimī; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, the deputy (wakīl) of Abū Ṣakhrah; Abū Bakr ibn al-Anbārī; the judge al-Maḥāmilī; and others.
Those who transmitted from him included: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Azhari, ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Anṣārī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Busrī, Mālik ibn Aḥmad al-Bānyāsī, and several others.
Al-Khaṭīb said: “I was present when Abū Bakr al-Barqānī was asked about Ibn al-Ṣalt al-Mujbir, and he replied, ‘The two sons of al-Ṣalt are both weak.’” (1)
He added, “I asked Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir about al-Mujbir, and he said: ‘He was …’” (2)