of learning, devotion, and merit. He did not possess wide learning other than the narrations he conveyed from those eminent figures; nevertheless, he owned dependable source-manuscripts to which he constantly referred and upon which he relied.

I remark: he was the maternal uncle of Abu al-Hasan Shurayḥ ibn Muhammad.

Those who reported from him include Abu al-Walid ibn al-Dabbagh, ʿAli ibn al-Husayn al-Luwati, and a number of others. He also granted an ijazah to Abu ʿAbd Allah ibn Zurqun, and he lived to a very advanced age.

He died in Shaʿban of the year 508 AH, at ninety years of age.

188 – Abu Tahir al-Yusufi ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qadir

The shaykh, the trustworthy, the upright transmitter: Abu Tahir ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi, the cloth-merchant.

He heard hadith from Abu ʿAli ibn al-Mudhhib, Abu Ishaq al-Barmaki, Abu Bakr ibn Bishran, Abu Muhammad al-Jawhari, and several others.

He narrated the Sunan of al-Daraqutni through the chain of Ibn Bishran from its author.

Among those who received hadith from him were Ibn Nasir, Abu al-Muʿammar al-Ansari, Abu Tahir al-Silafi, al-Saʾin Hibat Allah ibn ʿAsakir, his brother the hafiz ʿAbd al-Khaliq al-Yusufi, his nephews ʿAbd al-Haq and ʿAbd al-Rahim—the two sons of ʿAbd al-Khaliq—and others.

Al-Silafi said: “He was one of the leading notables of Baghdad.”