—he had not heard anything save the session on al-Bitāqah (1), and he was the only surviving transmitter from Hamzah al-Kinānī.
He was born in Ramadan of the year 343 AH.
Those who narrated from him include: Hibatu’llāh ibn Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Yūsufī, Murshid Abū Ṣādiq al-Madīnī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Rāzī, and several others.
He died on the third of Rajab, 441 AH, at the age of ninety-eight.
- Al-ʿAtīqī – Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
The imam, ḥadith scholar, and reliable narrator, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Baghdādī, known as al-ʿAtīqī, the mujāhiz (2), the saffār.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Razzāz, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Luʾluʾ the copy-seller, Isḥāq ibn Saʿd al-Nasawī, the judge Abū Bakr al-Abharī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd
(1) This refers to the hadith booklet known as Juzʾ al-Bitaqa; he received it from Abu l-Qasim Hamza ibn Muhammad al-Kinani of Egypt. See: al-Suyuti, Husn al-Muhadara, 1/351, 373, 374; al-Kattani, al-Risala al-Mustatrafa, p. 90. The booklet is a documentation of the long hadith of Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As, transmitted in the Musnad, 2/312; al-Tirmidhi, no. 2639; Ibn Majah, no. 4300. Ibn Hibban (no. 2524) and al-Hakim, 1/529, declared it authentic, and al-Dhahabi agreed; their judgment is sound.
(*) Principal biographical sources: Tarikh Baghdad, 4/379; al-Ansab, s.v. “al-Atiqi,” 8/393, and “al-Mujahhaz”; al-Muntazam, 8/143; al-Lubab, 2/323 and 3/170; al-Ibar, 3/195; al-Mushtabih, 2/465; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, 7/358–359; al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 12/60; Tabsir al-Muntabih, 3/996, 1014; Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 3/265.
(2) The expression is used for someone who transports merchants’ capital from one city to another, hands it over to an associate of the sender, and then brings back the same amount; see al-Lubab.