the Baghdadi, the spinner, the cloth-merchant, and the father of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb and Muḥammad.

He heard ḥadith from Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār; ʿAlī ibn Idrīs al-Sutūrī (1); Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Bakhtarī; and Ibn al-Sammāk.

Those who narrated from him were the two Abū Bakrs—al-Bayhaqī and al-Khaṭīb—as well as Abū al-Fawāris Ṭirād al-Naqīb and others.

Al-Khaṭīb (2) said, “He was trustworthy and pious; he died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 412 AH.”

I add: his narrations have reached us among the ʿawālī (high-chain transmissions) of Ṭirād (3).

162 – Ibn al-Dalm, Ṣadaqah ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Qurashī*

The ḥadith scholar, reliable and trustworthy; Abū al-Qāsim, the last of the musnid transmitters: Ṣadaqah ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Qurashī, the Damascene, known as Ibn al-Dalm.

He heard from: Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī in Mecca; ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Dhahabī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaṣāʾirī; Abū al-Ṭayyib ibn ʿAbādal; and Khaythamah al-Aṭrābulusī.

Others who transmitted from him include ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Bukhārī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī, and ʿAlī ibn