ʿUbayd (1) Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ʿUmrūs (2) al-Baghdādī, the Mālikī.
He was born in 372 AH.
He heard hadith from Abu Ḥafs ibn Shāhin, Abu al-Qāsim ibn Ḥabāba (3), Abu Ṭāhir al-Mukhlis, and others.
Abu Bakr al-Khaṭīb narrated from him and said (4), “The issuing of fatwas in Baghdad culminated with him.”
I say: he was also counted among the foremost Qur’an reciters.
Abu Isḥāq states in Tabaqāt al-Fuqahāʾ (5): “He was a jurist, an uṣūlī, and a pious man.”
Abu al-Ghanāʾim al-Narsī said: “He was a righteous man; knowledge of the Mālikī school in Baghdad ultimately rested with him.”
Ibn ʿAsākir records in Tabyīn Kadhib al-Muftarī (6) that he died at the beginning of 452 AH (7).
I say: In that same year the emir of Egypt—after Damascus—renowned for his bravery, also died,