And ʿIjl are a clan of Bakr ibn Wāʾil, themselves descended from Rabīʿah—the brother of Muḍar, the two being sons of Nizār ibn Maʿadd ibn ʿAdnān.
His birth: Shaʿbān of the year 422 AH, in the village of ʿUkbarā. Such is what he himself recorded (1).
He heard from: Bushrā ibn Masīs al-Fātinī, ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar ibn Shāhīn, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ghaylān, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sawwāq, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAtīqī, Abū Bakr ibn Bishrān, the judge Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mukram and their contemporaries in Baghdad; Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥinnāʾī and his circle in Damascus; Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Maymūn ibn Ḥamzah and several others in Egypt. He also gathered transmissions in Khurāsān, Transoxiana, al-Jibāl, al-Jazīrah, and the coastal regions, and he met the ḥuffāẓ and leading imams (2).
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb—his own shaykh; the jurist Naṣr al-Maqdisī; al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Samarqandī the ḥāfiẓ; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Daqqāq; Shujāʿ ibn Fāris al-Dhuhlī; Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥumaydī; Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhān al-Turkī; Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mahdī; Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Samarqandī; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Bayān; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Kātib; and many others.
Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn Zakī the ḥāfiẓ informed me; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Umawī informed us; ʿAlī ibn al-Mufaḍḍal informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad informed us