42 – Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr ibn Khalaf al-Maghribī
The venerable and trustworthy shaykh, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr ibn Khalaf ibn Ḥammūd—Maghribī by origin, yet a resident of Nīshāpūr.
He narrated from Abū Ṭāhir ibn Khuzaymah; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣayrafī; the ḥadith master Abū Bakr al-Jawzaqī; Abū Muḥammad al-Makhladī; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Fāmī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khaffāf; Abū ʿAmr Aḥmad ibn Ubayy al-Furatī; and others.
ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Ismāʿīl said: “Our shaykh Abū Bakr al-Maghribī, the cloth-merchant—Khalaf’s brother—was a refined scholar. Their father, Shaykh Manṣūr, took him and his brother around to the leading teachers of the age, so they heard a great deal, and he compiled choice material for Abū Bakr.”
The foremost imams received ḥadith from him. He was granted the opportunity to transmit for many years and lived a life of integrity.
He is reported to have died in 462 AH; another opinion places his death in 460. Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir records that he passed away in Ramaḍān 459 AH (1).
I add: Those who narrated from him include ʿAbd al-Ghāfir al-Fārisī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Farāwī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Shahhāmī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baḥīrī, and others.
We have heard forty of his aḥādīth.
Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh related to us on more than one occasion, through ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad, who in turn transmitted from Tamīm