and Ibn al-Zubayr learned it from Abū Bakr the Truthful—who had taken it from the Prophet ﷺ, and the Prophet had received it from Gabriel, from Allah (1).
- Ibn Bishrān — Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Umawī
He was a shaykh, a learned scholar, and a man of proven integrity: Abū Bakr Muḥammad, son of the preacher, the Imām Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bishrān al-Umawī, a client of the Umayyads and a native of Baghdad, the one who transmitted the Sunan of al-Dāraqutnī directly from its author.
He studied under ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān az-Zuhrī, Abū ʿUmar ibn Ḥayyawayh, Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, Abū Bakr ibn Shādhān, and others of their rank.
He was counted among the prolific and trustworthy narrators.
Those who reported from him include Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū al-Ghanāʾim an-Narsī, Abū Ṭālib ibn Yūsuf, his cousin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad —the transmitter of the Sunan— Abū ʿAlī al-Bardānī, and several others.
Al-Salafī said: “I asked Shujāʿ adh-Dhuhlī about him, and he replied, ‘He was a shaykh with excellent audition, sound original manuscripts, and truthful in what he transmitted of ḥadith; I have heard from him myself.’”
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb (2) states: “He was born in Jumada al-Ākhira 373 AH, and he passed away in Jumada al-Ūlā 448 AH.”