al-Shaʿrānī, Naṣr Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Khushnāmī (1), and al-Sharīf Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām.

127 – al-Habbāl Abū al-Baqāʾ al-Muʿammar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī*
The reliable shaykh Abū al-Baqāʾ al-Muʿammar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl al-Kūfī, known as al-Habbāl (the rope-seller) and al-Khazzāz (the silk-dealer)—both names written with dotted letters—was also called Khuraybah.

He was born in 410 AH.

He heard ḥadith from the judge Najāḥ ibn Nadhīr al-Muḥāribī, Zayd ibn Abī Hāshim al-ʿAlawī, and Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Jaʿfarī. He was not among the most prolific narrators, yet he became well-known.

Among those who narrated from him were: Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī; Abū al-Maʿālī al-Ḥulwānī al-Marwazī; Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Sinjī; Kathīr ibn Samālīq; ʿAbd al-Khāliq al-Yūsufī; Ibn Nāṣir; Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī; and others.

Al-Samʿānī said: “A trustworthy shaykh of sound audition. Narrations from him became widespread; he lived to a great age, related a large number of reports, and what he heard was blessed. Hazarasp asked him about his birth, and he replied, ‘The year ten.’”

Abū Bakr ibn Tarkhān and al-Ḥusayn ibn Khusraw said: “We asked him about his birth, and he said, ‘The year thirteen.’”