Qurʾanic exegesis. He was thoroughly versed in ḥadith, commanded reverence and gravitas, was devoted in worship, and well known for his righteousness and generosity.

His pupils included Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĪsā al-Tamīmī, the judge of Ceuta, along with many others. He was afflicted with a degree of paralysis, yet his prodigious memory never faltered.

He passed away on the third of Ramaḍān in 526 AH, at eighty years of age.

Among those who transmitted from him were Abū Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr and Abū Muḥammad ibn Shabbūnah. He lived to an advanced age, and people travelled to him from every quarter.

352 – Abū Ghālib ibn al-Bannāʾ Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad *

A righteous, trustworthy shaykh and the leading musnid of Baghdad: Abū Ghālib Aḥmad, son of the imam Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Bannāʾ al-Baghdādī, the Ḥanbalī.

He heard ḥadith from Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī—being the sole transmitter of several elevated portions from him—Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasnūn al-Narsī, the judge Abū Yaʿlā ibn al-Farrāʾ, Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn al-Maʾmūn, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Gharīq, his own father Abū ʿAlī, and others. He compiled a mashyakha (catalogue of his teachers) selected by the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir.

He was born in 545 AH and held written authorizations (ijāzat) from the jurist Abū Isḥāq al-Barmakī and the judge Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī.