Abū Marwān ibn Ḥayyān passed away in the last days of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, in 469 AH.
Al-Ghassānī said, “He was outstanding in the literary sciences, bore the banner of history in al-Andalus, and was the most eloquent person in that field (1).”
180 – Ibn al-Naqqūr, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī *
The venerable shaykh, the truthful one, the ḥadith authority of Iraq, Abū al-Ḥusayn (2) Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (3) ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Naqqūr (4) al-Baghdādī, the cloth-merchant.
He was born in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 381 AH.
He heard ḥadith from ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Ḥarbī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ḥabābah (5), Abū Ḥafṣ al-Kattānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Daqqāq—the nephew of Mīmī—Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhalliṣ, ʿĪsā ibn al-Wazīr, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Mardak, and others.
He alone preserved ajzāʾ with elevated isnāds, such as the copy of Hudbah ibn Khālid, the copy of Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah, the copy of Ṭālūt, the copy of Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī, the copy of ʿUmar ibn Zurārah, and additional items.
His auditions were sound, and he was scrupulous in transmission (6).