Ibn Qāniʿ and Abū ʿUmar al-Zāhid, yet he himself made no transmissions.
Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Wāsiṭī told me that he had recited two lines of verse to him; he said, “Abū ʿUmar recited to us…” (1).
It is related that the caliph al-Mutawakkil once offered the judgeship to their forefather Muḥammad, but he refused. They hold that the blessing of that refusal passed to his descendants: twenty-four of them held judicial office, and eight rose to the rank of Chief Judge, the last of whom was this man. We have never seen anyone equal to him in dignity and honor. His first post was as judge of Basra; later he became judge of Baghdad in 405 AH. He died in Shawwāl 417 AH at the age of eighty-eight (2).

224 – al-ʿUkbarī, Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān
The ʿUkbarī cloth-merchant, one of the transmitters of ḥadith.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṭāʾī, Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh, and ʿAlī ibn Ṣadaqa.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Naṣr ibn al-Baṭar, and a group of others.
Al-Khaṭīb dated his death to 317 AH (3).