ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī, later of Isfahān, from a household renowned for knowledge and reliable chains of transmission, the earliest of whom was ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Baghdādī.

Muḥammad preached, became famous, and had his children—the ḥāfiẓ Abū Saʿd and Fāṭimah—hear hadith from him. He shared in many other merits as well.

He himself heard hadith from Ibn Fādhshāh, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn Fādhawayh, Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Muʾaddib, and Ibn Rīdhah.

Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Samarkandī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī, and others.

He was born in 423 AH, and he died in Safar 480 AH, a stranger in Baghdad, after returning from the pilgrimage. (1)

273 – Masʿūd ibn Nāṣir ibn Abī Zayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Sijzī *
The imam, hadith scholar, itinerant traveler, and ḥāfiẓ, Abū Saʿīd (2) al-Sijzī (3), known as al-Rakkāb.

He heard hadith from ʿAlī ibn Bushrā, from a group of scholars in Sijistān, and from Muḥammad ibn