and Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bishrūyah (1); al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Samarqandī, the ḥāfiẓ (2); Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isfarāyinī (3); ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Ḥassān ibn Saʿīd al-Manīʿī; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿUlwān al-Shaybānī (4); Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥaramī (5) of Herat; and Makkī ibn Manṣūr al-Sallār al-Karajī (6).
29 – Ibn al-Baṭir, Naṣr ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī
The shaykh, Qurʾān-reciter, distinguished scholar, and Musnid of Iraq—Abū al-Khaṭṭāb Naṣr ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Baṭir al-Baghdādī, the cloth-merchant and reader.
He was born in 398 AH. His brother arranged for him to audition hadith from Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Bayyiʿ, ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad al-ʿUkbarī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Rizqawayh, Abū Bakr al-Munaqqī, and Makkī al-Ḥarīrī. He stood unrivaled in his day, and the hadith scholars travelled to him.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkara, Abū Bakr al-Anṣārī, Ismāʿīl al-Samarqandī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Anmāṭī, Saʿd al-Khayr al-Andalusī, and Abū—