Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Muʿammar al-Anṣārī, the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir, his brother Ṣāʾin Hibat Allāh, Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī, and others.
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “He was a scholar of historical reports. He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 521 AH. He used to say, ‘My father brought me through Dinawar when I was a child; my books were burned in the time of al-Mustazhir; and Abū al-Hasan al-Qazwīnī heard ḥadīth from my grandfather Aḥmad.’”
307 – Ibn al-Bukhārī, Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī *
The shaykh, upright and eminent senior transmitter: Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī, known as Ibn al-Bukhārī and nicknamed al-Mubakhkhir (1).
He was born in 434 AH.
He received ḥadīth from Abū Ṭālib ibn Ghaylān, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Mudhahhib, Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī, Abū al-Hasan al-Bāqillānī, and Abū Ṭālib al-ʿUshārī.
Transmitters from him include ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Hibat Allāh al-Bundār, Ṣāʾin ibn ʿAsākir, Yaḥyā ibn Bawsh, and others.