Narrated from him were Abu al-Muʿammar al-Ansari, ʿAli ibn Abi Saʿid al-Khabbaz, Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Hamadhani, and ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Samad al-Sulami.
Ibn Nasir remarked, “He was a righteous man, a confectioner by trade, firmly upon the Sunnah, and his transmissions are sound.”
Ibn Kamil said, “He died on the twenty-sixth of Ramadan, 520 AH.”
312 – Ibn Rudhwan, Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad *
The eminent dignitary Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Rudhwan ibn Muhammad ibn Rudhwan al-Baghdadi, al-Marātibi.
He heard hadith from Abu Muhammad al-Jawhari and Abu Yaʿla ibn al-Farraʾ, and received formal authorization (ijāza) from ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn ʿAli al-Azaji.
Among those who narrated from him are Muhammad ibn Tahir in his Muʿjam, Abu al-Muʿammar al-Ansari, Abu al-Qasim Ibn ʿAsakir, Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Sibt, and a group of others.
Ibn al-Najjar said, “He was righteous, trustworthy, and given to much prayer and charity. He died in Jumada al-Akhira, 524 AH, at the age of eighty-one.”
313 – The Perfumer, Abu Ghalib Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Baqi ibn Ahmad **
The shaykh and centenarian Abu Ghalib Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Baqi ibn Ahmad ibn Bishr al-Karkhi, al-Baghdadi, the perfumer.