al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad al-Kattānī, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Qāsim the ḥāfiẓ, al-Khushūʿī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī al-Kharqī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Harastānī, and others besides them.
He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 531 AH, a little over eighty years old; he had been born in 450. Ibn ʿAsākir criticized him, saying: “He was a difficult shaykh, ignorant of hadith and unreliable. He scraped his brother’s name from al-Qudāʿī’s book al-Shihāb and inserted his own in its place.”
- Ibn Khusraw – Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad
The ḥadith scholar, learned man, and benefactor of Baghdad: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Khusraw al-Balkhī, later al-Baghdādī, a Ḥanafī, compiler of the Musnad of Abū Ḥanīfah.
He heard hadith from Mālik al-Bāniyāsī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Anbārī, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Fahd, al-Niʿālī, and many others after them. He narrated abundantly, collected traditions, benefited the people, and labored hard.
Ibn al-Jawzī and others transmitted from him.
Al-Samʿānī said: “I asked Ibn Nāṣir about him, and he remarked, ‘He is somewhat weak; he inclines…’”