He performed the pilgrimage and remained for a time in the Holy Cities, and he received the Sahih of Abu ‘Abd Allah al-Bukhari from the master-scholar Abu Dharr al-Hafiz.
He was a man of virtue, a model to be followed, and thoroughly reliable (1).

Those who narrated his Sunan from him include: Ahmad ibn Manzur, Abu ‘Ali al-Ghassani, Yunus ibn Muhammad ibn Mughith, Shurayh ibn Muhammad, and several others.
He also met Abu ‘Amr al-Safaqsi and Abu al-Najib al-Urmawi.

He lived for seventy years and came from a family of standing and prestige.
He heard the Sahih and meticulously collated it in the year 431 AH, a text that the Andalusians came to rely upon, and he performed the pilgrimage twice.

Al-Ghassani said, “He possessed excellent accuracy, was among the foremost of people, and was noble-spirited and of outstanding character” (2).
Abu Ja‘far ibn ‘Umayrah said, “A jurist, a hadith scholar, a man of deep knowledge.”
It was also said, “His supplication was answered, and he was abundant in acts of charity” (3).

He passed away in Shawwal of the year 469 AH.

191 – al-Mulaqabādhi, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Hassan ibn Muhammad *

The shaykh, the imam, the jurist, the hadith transmitter, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Hassan ibn Muhammad