210 – Ibn al-Muslimah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Baghdādī
The imām, exemplar, Abū al-Faraj Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥasan ibn al-Muslimah al-Baghdādī, an accepted and reliable authority.
He heard ḥadīth from Aḥmad ibn Kāmil, Abū Bakr al-Najjād, Ibn ʿAllam (1), Daʿlaj ibn Aḥmad, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Khaṭīb, Ṭirād al-Zaynabī, and several others.
Al-Khaṭīb (2) said: “He was trustworthy. Each year he would hold a single dictation session. He was described as intelligent, virtuous, and benevolent; his house was a meeting place for scholars. He fasted often and recited the Qur’an abundantly.”
Others said: “He studied law under Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, the shaykh of the Ḥanafis. He used to fast continuously and would offer the night prayer with one-seventh (3) of the Qur’an, and he was seen—in a dream (4)—to be among the blessed.”
He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 415 AH, at the age of seventy-eight.
He was the father of the transmitter Abū Jaʿfar (5) and the grandfather of the vizier, chief of the dignitaries, Abū