Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghdādī, al-Kattānī.
He was born in 336 AH.
He studied under Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Adami, Abū Bakr al-Najjād, Daʿlij al-Shāfiʿī, Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Ṣawwāf, Abū Sulaymān al-Ḥarrānī, Aḥmad ibn Thābit al-Wāsitī, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb—who said, “He was reliable and devout”(1)—Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Miṣṣīṣī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bayān al-Razzāz, Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn, and many others.
He passed away in Dhū al-Qaʿdah 422 AH, at the age of eighty-six.
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd informed us; Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid of al-Mizza informed us; the judge Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Qurashī informed us in 536 AH; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad the jurist informed us; Ṭalḥah ibn ʿAlī informed us; Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn Thābit narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Muslimah narrated to us; Mūsā al-Ṭawīl narrated to us; Anas narrated, saying:
“I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ wiping over his two socks while he was wearing sandals.”
This is a nine-link chain for us, but Mūsā is not trustworthy(2); he claimed that he was among the freedmen of