297 – Ḥamzah b. Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir, Abū Ṭāhir al-Baghdādī

The ḥāfiẓ, teacher, and hadith scholar Abū Ṭāhir al-Baghdādī, known as al-Daqqāq.

He was born in 366 AH.

He heard hadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn b. al-Muẓaffar, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāraqutnī, Abū Ḥafṣ b. Shāhīn, and others of their tier.

Al-Khaṭīb said, “We wrote down traditions from him; he was truthful, perceptive, and knowledgeable.” (1)

Al-Barqānī remarked, “Never did I meet with Ḥamzah b. Muḥammad without parting from him having gained some scholarly benefit.” (2)

Al-Khaṭīb also related, “He died in 424 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā al-Karmānī and Ibn Jaddā told me that they both saw Ḥamzah b. Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir in a dream, and he informed them that Allah is pleased with him.” (3)

In that same year there also passed away the shaykh of the Ḥanafīs and judge of Bukhārā, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn b. al-Khaḍir al-Fashīdīzajī, (4) the exemplary imam Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Dhunnīn of Toledo, (5) and Abū Naṣr Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Shanbūyah.