181 — al-Saqaṭī, Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn al-Mubārak ibn Mūsā*
The shaykh, hadith scholar, and instructor of Baghdad: Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn al-Mubārak ibn Mūsā al-Baghdādī, known as al-Saqaṭī, author of the extensive Muʿjam (1).
He copied from anyone he could reach, extracting, compiling, and ever alert for material; yet he was a weak narrator, lacking precision.
He heard hadith from: the Qadi Abū Yaʿlā, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī billāh, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn, Abū Jaʿfar ibn Muslimah, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Dajjājī, Jābir ibn Yāsīn, Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Hanād al-Nasafī, and others after them.
He travelled to Isfahān, Kūfah, Basra, Mosul, and the Jibāl region, exerting himself to the utmost, searching out shaykhs until he even wrote from those beneath him in rank.
Those who transmitted from him include his son Wajīh, Ismāʿīl ibn al-Samarkandī, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir, al-Mubārak ibn Kāmil, al-Silafī, and others.
Ibn al-Najjār said: Ibn Rawāj narrated to us, al-Silafī narrated to us, Hibat Allāh al-Saqaṭī in Wāsiṭ narrated to us, Abū Yaʿlā narrated to us … and he cited a hadith.
He also composed fine verse.