the Hanbali, the cloth-dealer (1), popularly called “the Maristan Judge.” His father was known as “the son-in-law of Hiba.”
Birth: He was born on the 10th of Safar in the year 442 AH.
His father started him early, taking him—when he was four years old—to attend the recital of Abū Isḥāq al-Barmakī of the Ansārī booklet and its companion material. He later received a great many narrations thanks to the efforts of their neighbour, the itinerant traditionist ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-Shayḥī al-Saffār, from ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Bāqillānī; Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī; the judge Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī; ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khaffāf; Abū Ṭālib al-ʿUshārī; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasnūn al-Narsī; ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Barmakī; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ābanūsī; the judge Abū Yaʿlā ibn al-Farrāʾ; Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima; Muḥammad ibn Wishāḥ al-Zaynabī; Jābir ibn Yāsīn; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn; Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Makhbazī; ʿAlī, son of Shaykh Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muhtadī bi-llāh; Abū al-Faḍl Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Maʾmūn; Khadījah bint Muḥammad al-Shāhajānīyah; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAllayka; and his own father Abū Ṭāhir ʿAbd al-Bāqī, who reported to him from Ibn al-Ṣalt al-Mujbir. He likewise heard from the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb; Abū al-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn al-Dajjājī; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī al-Anmāṭī; Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bayḍāwī; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥumadhū (3); Hannād ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nasafī; the sharīf Abū Jaʿfar ibn Abī Mūsā—under whom he also studied jurisprudence—and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī the Qurʾān-reciter.
He further received transmission in Egypt from: