Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr narrated to us, saying: al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl narrated to us, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr narrated to us, from Abū Salama, from Abū Hurayrah:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Indeed, I seek Allah’s forgiveness one hundred times every day.” (1)
200 – Ibn al-Busrī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī *
A venerable shaykh, learned, truthful, and the chief musnid (senior transmitter) of Iraq: Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Busrī al-Baghdādī, known as al-Bundār.
He heard ḥadith from: Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhalliṣ, Abū Aḥmad al-Faraḍī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣalt al-Mujbir, Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣarṣarī, Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī, and others.
He was granted authorization by Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Baṭṭa al-ʿUkbarī, Naṣr ibn Aḥmad al-Marjī, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Tamīmī, and others besides them.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Khaṭīb, al-Ḥumaydī, Abū ʿAlī al-Bardānī, Abū al-Faḍl ibn al-Muhtadī bi-Allah, ʿAlī ibn Ṭirād the vizier, Ismāʿīl al-Samarqandī, Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb al-Hamadhānī, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Ghāzī, and Muḥammad ibn