- Ibn al-Mutayyam, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī
The Imām, preacher, and long-lived scholar, Abū al-Ḥusayn (1) Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥammād al-Baghdādī, known as Ibn al-Mutayyam.
He was a trustworthy shaykh, though fond of much joking (2).
He transmitted hadith from: the judge al-Maḥāmilī, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Azraq, the ḥadith master Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUqda, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd, Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, and Ḥamzah ibn al-Qāsim.
It was said that everything he possessed from each of them amounted to a single session, except for al-Azraq, from whom he heard six sessions.
He narrated independently, became well-known, and used to preach in the Manṣūr Mosque (3).
Among those who related from him were: al-Khaṭīb—who remarked (4), “I have not written from anyone whose audition precedes his”—Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Bāqarḥī, ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀṣimī, Rizq Allāh al-Tamīmī, and others.