- Ibn Mūsā al-Khayyāt, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad.
The shaykh, the imām, and foremost Qur’an reciter of his time: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Jaʿfar al-Baghdādī, the Ḥanbalī, known as al-Khayyāt (“the tailor”).
He was born in 376 AH.
He learned the various canonical readings from Abū Aḥmad al-Farḍī, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Sūsanjardī, Bakr ibn Shādhān, ʿUbayd Allāh al-Maṣāḥifī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥammāmī.
He also received ḥadith from al-Farḍī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣalt al-Ahwāzī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Dūst, Abū ʿUmar ibn Mahdī, Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣarṣarī, and a number of others.
Those who read to him include Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mazrafī (1), Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ṭabar, and al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Bāriʿ, all of whom transmitted from him as well.
Among his transmitters are al-Khaṭīb in his History, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Yūsufī, Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṭarrāḥ, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn al-Badan, Abū Manṣūr al-Qazzāz, and others.
Al-Silafī relates: “I asked al-Muʾtamin al-Sājī about Abū Bakr al-Khayyāt, and he said, ‘He was a trustworthy shaykh in ḥadith and recitation, righteous, and patient in poverty.’”
Ibn Yāsir al-Bardanī said: “Abū Bakr was among those who wept profusely when Allah was mentioned; the tears had etched marks upon his cheeks.”