248 – al-Dūrī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad*
The shaykh, scholar, reliable authority, righteous man, and hadith transmitter: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad ibn Yusr al-Dūrī, later known as al-Baghdādī, the broker (simsār).
He was born in 434 AH.
He heard hadith from Abū Bakr ibn Bishrān, Abū Ṭālib al-ʿUshārī, Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī, and a number of others.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAbdarī, Ibn Nāṣir, al-Silafī, al-Ṣāʾin Hibat Allāh, Dhākir ibn Kāmil, and several more. By written authorization he also transmitted to ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Kulayb.
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “He was a righteous, trustworthy shaykh, a man of goodness.”
Ibn Nuqṭah said: “He is Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Yusr.”
I say: He died in Ṣafar, 513 AH.
In that same year there also died: Ibn ʿAqīl the Ḥanbalī (1); the chief judge ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Dāmghānī; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muwāzinī (2); Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhān (3); Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Khurawast (4); and Abū Saʿd al-Mubārak ibn ʿAlī al-Mukharramī, the Ḥanbalī.