He also said, “He was the leading imām of the Ḥanafī scholars beyond the River, and he left behind weighty works (1). He taught in Samarqand. He died in Kish (2) in the month of Rajab, 482 AH, and he was cited as a byword for mastery of the school’s doctrine. He was born around 400 AH. As for his brother, he will be mentioned later (3).
320 – Ibn Zikrī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī*
The eminent, trustworthy, and righteous shaykh: Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Zikrī al-Baghdādī, known as al-Daqqāq.
He heard from: Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān and Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥammāmī.
Those who transmitted from him include: Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī, Abū Saʿd ibn al-Baghdādī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī, Hibat Allāh al-Daqqāq, Abū Bakr ibn al-Zāghwānī, and others.
(1) His best-known work is his treatise on legal theory entitled Usul al-Bazdawi; it was printed in Istanbul in 1308 H/1890 together with the commentary Kashf al-Asrar by Ala al-Din al-Bukhari. Among his other writings are: al-Mabsut (eleven volumes), a commentary on al-Jami al-Kabir, a commentary on al-Jami al-Saghir, and several more. See al-Jawahir al-Mudiyya, 2/595.
(2) Pronounced with kasra on the k and a doubled unpointed s: a town close to Samarqand. Ibn Makula notes that Iraqi scholars keep the kasra, whereas others pronounce it with fatha. In al-Fawaid al-Bahiya the name is misread as “Kash,” with fatha and a dotted sh, which actually refers to a village three farsakhs from Jurjan on a mountain. See Mujam al-Buldan, 4/460 and 4/462.
(3) This is Abu al-Yusr Muhammad b. Muhammad b. al-Husayn b. Abd al-Karim al-Bazdawi; his biography will appear in volume 19, no. 30.
(*) Al-Muntazam, 9/78; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 3/1199; al-Ibar, 3/312 (where the name is distorted to Ibn Zikri with dhal); Shadharat al-Dhahab, 3/378.