and from al-Sulamī.

He held dictation sessions in Baghdad; the judge Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī attended, and more than five hundred ink-stands were present. Afterward, he bequeathed to the judge his books and individual fascicles.

The number of his teachers reached five hundred.

Al-Samʿānī said: “He was one of the most polished of the shaykhs, the keenest of them about elegant appearance and cleanliness, and the best at remembering the dates of the earlier scholars.”

He set out for Hajj and remained in Iraq and other lands for about twenty years. He then returned to Nishapur, resumed public dictation, was granted transmission, and was able to benefit from what he had heard; he listened to al-Hākim … and then listed his other teachers.

He died in Rajab 474 AH at the age of eighty.

I (the author) say: He met al-Hākim when he was ten years old.

He came from a household devoted to transmission, so it is unsurprising that his father enabled him to hear from al-Hākim.

198 – Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ghālib al-Baghdādī

The venerable shaykh and hadith transmitter, Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ghālib al-Baghdādī, al-Azjī—known as Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār—served as agent for the two caliphs al-Qāʾim and al-Muqtadī.

He heard hadith from Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhliṣ and Aḥmad ibn al-Jundī.

Those who narrated from him include Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb al-Hamadhānī, ʿAbd al-Munʿim—the son of the shaykh Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī—Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Ghāzī, and several others.

Al-Samʿānī said: “He had commendable conduct, a pleasing manner, and a sound audition.”