Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Fatḥ ibn al-Baṭṭī, Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, and Abū Mūsā al-Madanī.
He died on the last day of the year 505 AH.
199 – al-Muʿayyar* Abū Ghālib Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Abī al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
The imām and Qur’an-reciter, Abū Ghālib Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Abī al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī, known as al-Muʿayyar, the maternal cousin of the master of the reciters Ibn Suwār.
He recited according to the reading of Abū ʿAmr before ʿAbd Allah ibn Makkī al-Sawwāq, who in turn had taken it from al-Shanabūdhī.
He also heard ḥadith from Ibn Ghaylān, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥarrānī, Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Tawwazī, and others.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Nāṣir, al-Silafī, Abū al-Muʿammar al-Anṣārī, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī, and many others.
Through ijāza, Naṣr Allah al-Qazzāz narrated from him as well. He was counted among the trustworthy and devout.
He lived for eighty years.
He passed away in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 508 AH, and al-Mubārak ibn Kāmil recited to him.
200 – Ibn al-Bayhaqī** Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn
The jurist, imām, and shaykh al-quḍāt, Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl, the son of the imām Abū Bakr