al-Baqqār, a disciple of Abū ʿAlī ibn Ḥabash, and Ghānim ibn Muḥammad compiled for him five fascicles, all of which we have heard.
I add: he was born in 411 AH, in the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal of that year.
Abū Mūsā said: he died on the twenty-second of Shawwāl, 503 AH.
In that same year died: Aḥmad ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn Sawsan ⦗1⦘; the great exemplar Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-ʿUlabī al-Ḥanbalī; Abū al-Fityān ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Rawwāsī, the ḥāfiẓ ⦗2⦘; Abū Ṭāhir al-Muḥassad ibn Muḥammad al-Iskāf, the transmitter of al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr from Ibn Fādhshāh; the eminent vizier Abū al-Maʿālī Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muṭṭalib al-Kirmānī ⦗3⦘ in Baghdad, and others.
Ibn Nuqta said: he narrated the Musnad of al-Tayālisī from al-Jamāl and Abū Nuʿaym, and al-Silafī received from him the Musnad of al-Ḥumaydī on the basis of his audition from Abū Nuʿaym.
158 – Ibn Nabhān, Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm*
The venerable shaykh, learned scholar, long-lived, and the leading musnid of his time: Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd ibn Nabhān al-Baghdādī, al-Karkhī, the scribe.