, ‘The Humble’, ‘Recitation Behind the Imam’, ‘The Tashahhud’, ‘Thinking Well of Others’, ‘Fraternity’, ‘The Threat to the Fornicators’, ‘The Martyrs’, ‘Predestination’, ‘The Rightly-Guided Caliphs’, and several other fascicles and compilations besides these (1).
The musnid of the world, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād, died on the twenty-sixth of Dhū al-Ḥijjah in the year 515 AH, having reached almost one hundred years of age. He was buried in Isfahān, near the judge Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl.
194 – al-Baladī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad*
The shaykh, imām, ḥadith scholar, and long-lived authority: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Naḍr al-Baladī al-Nasafī. His appellation “al-Baladī” refers to the town (balad) of Nasaf, meaning that he did not hail from the surrounding villages (2).
He heard ḥadith from: his father, Abū Naṣr al-Baladī; the ḥāfiẓ Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Mustaghfirī; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Maymargī (3); Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Salāmī; and Abū Masʿūd