—the associate of Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī—and Abū Maʿmar al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ismāʿīlī.
87 – al-Ṭuraythīthī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Zakariyyāʾ
The imam, ascetic, hadith transmitter and shaykh of the Sufis, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Ṭuraythīthī—later al-Baghdādī, the Sufi—widely known as Ibn Zahraʾ.
Birth: Shawwāl, 411 AH.
I read in al-Silafī’s own handwriting that he heard Abū Bakr say he had been born in Shawwāl, 412 AH.
He heard hadith from his father; Ibn al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān; Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan al-Lālkāʾī; Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥurfī; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Makhlad; Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān and several others, and he claimed to have heard from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Rizqawayh.
Al-Samʿānī said: “Some of his auditions, found in separate fascicles, are authentic, but he spoilt his record by alleging that he had heard from Ibn Rizqawayh, for that has not been verified.”⦗1⦘
Shujāʿ al-Dhulī observed: “There is unanimous agreement on his weakness.”⦗2⦘
Al-Samʿānī also noted: “He had standing in Sufism; he met the masters, served them, possessed a pleasant recitation and accompanied Abū Saʿd al-Naysābūrī.”⦗3⦘