ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad the jurist informed us; Ilyās ibn Aḥmad informed us; Ḥamzah ibn Karrūs informed us; the jurist Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm informed us; Sulaym ibn Ayyūb narrated to us; Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Abī Ṭāhir narrated to us; Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Shaʿrānī narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān narrated to us; Ḥibbān ibn Mūsā narrated to us; Ibn al-Mubārak narrated to us, from Kahmas, from Ibn Buraydah, from Yaḥyā ibn Yaʿmar, who said: “Maʿbad al-Juhanī has appeared here, and he is the first person in this land to speak about qadar (divine predestination).” He then cited the remainder of the ḥadīth. (1)
112 – Ibn Bīrī, Abū Bakr ibn ʿUbayd ibn al-Faḍl al-Wāsiṭī
A ḥadīth scholar, remarkably long-lived and reliable, the leading shaykh of Wāsiṭ. He is Abū Bakr (2) ibn ʿUbayd ibn al-Faḍl ibn Sahl ibn Bīrī al-Wāsiṭī.
He was the last of the associates of ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mubashshir al-Wāsiṭī, and he reported from him as well as from Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Samʿān, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Shawdhab, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Zaʿfarānī, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣūlī, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Bakhtarī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Manṣūr, ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Qāniʿ, and several others.
Indeed, Khamīs ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥawzī (3) even claimed that he had personally heard ḥadīths from Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī.