The Twenty-Sixth Generation
61 – Ibn al-Khāḍibah, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Baghdādī*
The shaykh, the imām, the ḥadith scholar, the ḥāfiẓ, the truthful, the exemplar, the blessing of the traditionists: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Manṣūr al-Baghdādī, known as al-Daqqāq, better known as Ibn al-Khāḍibah.
Al-Miqdād ibn Abī al-Qāsim informed us in his book, saying: Abū al-Baqāʾ the grammarian in Baghdad informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad the ḥāfiẓ narrated to us; Abū ʾl-Ḥusayn, son of al-Muhtadī bi-Allāh, informed us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us; Khālid ibn Makhlad narrated to us; Sulaymān ibn Bilāl narrated to us; Abū Ḥāzim narrated to us, from Sahl ibn Saʿd, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: