al-Ḥasan b. Khadhādhā al-Bāqillānī, known as the Grocer (al-Baqqāl), al-Fāmī, the Baghdadi.
He received ḥadith from Abū ʿAlī b. Shādhān, Abū Bakr al-Barqānī, Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Maḥāmilī, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Bakr al-Samʿānī, Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad al-Taymī, Ibn Nāṣir, al-Silafī, the preacher of Mosul, Shuhda, and many more.
ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī praised him, and Ibn Nāṣir said, “He used to weep profusely out of fear of Allah.” (1)
The author adds: He lived for eighty years or more and passed away in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, 500 AH. He was the brother of the shaykh Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan al-Karkhī mentioned earlier.
- Ibn Zanjawayh, Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad
The imam, jurist, and long-lived scholar, Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Zanjawayh al-Zanjānī (2), a Shāfiʿī.
He was born in 403 AH. As a young man he travelled to Baghdad, where he studied under Abū ʿAlī b. Shādhān and others.
He read the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad with al-Ḥusayn al-Fallākī, a disciple of al-Qaṭīʿī, and he also studied the work Gharīb