126 – Muḥammad ibn Makkī ibn ʿUthmān, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Azdī
The ḥadith scholar and musnid: Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Makkī ibn ʿUthmān al-Azdī al-Miṣrī.
He heard ḥadith from the judge ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Ḥalabī; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ikhmīmī; al-Muʾammal ibn Aḥmad al-Shaybānī; al-Maymūn ibn Ḥamzah al-Ḥusaynī; ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Abī Jidār al-Ṣawwāf; Abū Muslim Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kātib; Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Khurashīdh Qawlah; his maternal grandfather Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ruzayq al-Baghdādī; and a number of others.
He narrated in Damascus and in Egypt.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Ibn Mākūlā, the jurist Naṣr al-Maqdisī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Samarkandī, ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nasīb, Hibat Allāh ibn al-Akfānī, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Ḥamzah, Ṭāhir ibn Sahl al-Isfarāyinī, Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Baṭrīq, and several others.
Al-Kattānī judged him trustworthy and said: “He died halfway through Jumādā al-Ūlā in the year one and sixty and four hundred,” i.e. d. 461 AH.
He was born in 384 AH, and people had him recite hadith while he was still very young.
ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim informed us; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad related to us, from his book, in 608 AH; Ṭāhir ibn Sahl related to us in 525 AH; Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Makkī informed us; my grandfather Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ruzayq narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Rishdīn al-Mahri (1) narrated to us; al-Hārith ibn