al-Baghdādī, known as al-Najjār, and he lived next door to Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bishrān.
He was born in 346 AH.
Among those from whom he heard hadith were Abū Bakr ibn Khallād al-Naṣībī, Abū Bahr al-Barbahārī, Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar al-Khuṭṭulī, Abū Isḥāq al-Muzakkī, and many others.
A number of senior scholars recited the Qur’an to him—among them ʿAbd al-Sayyid ibn ʿAttāb, Abū al-Khaṭṭāb ibn al-Jarrāḥ, Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Wakīl, and Thābit ibn Bundār al-Baqqāl—and this (1) was because his reading was linked to al-Buzūrī (2), the associate of the exegete Aḥmad ibn Farḥ (3).
Those who transmitted from him include al-Khaṭīb, Ibn al-Ṭuyūrī, and Aḥmad ibn Bundār al-Baqqāl. Al-Khaṭīb said: “I wrote down narrations from him. He was trustworthy, one of the people of the Qur’an, and he had recited to Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Buzūrī.”
He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of 432 AH (4).
312 – Ibn Garsiyyah al-Qurṭubī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad *
The eminent scholar and chief judge of the community, Abū al-Muṭarrif ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn