son of Yazdad al-Baghdādī, from Wāsiṭ, and affiliated with the Muʿtazilah.
He transmitted ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar the ḥāfiẓ, Abū al-Faḍl al-Zuhrī, and others.
In his day he was unique.
He passed away in Shawwāl of the year 459 AH.

Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb (1) said: “He held the judgeship of Wāsiṭ for a time, and he was a Muʿtazilī.”

I say: The last person to receive an ijāzah from him was Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʿīl al-Samarqandī, and the last to hear him directly was Abū al-Karam Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jalakht al-Azdī.

101 — al-Suyūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith *
The shaykh of the Mālikīs and the seal of the imams in Kairouan: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith al-Maghribī, al-Suyūrī—renowned for a prodigious memory in jurisprudence, coupled with asceticism and devotional piety.
He wrote a marginal commentary on the Mudawwanah, and leading scholars graduated under him.
He died in 460 AH at a very advanced age.
ʿIyāḍ mentioned him.

102 — Ibn al-Muslimah, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Sulamī **
The shaykh, the imam, reliable, eminent, righteous, and the musnid of his time: Abū Jaʿfar