As for the subject’s uncle, he was the judge Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad(1) ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, a venerable shaykh who transmitted ḥadith from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Razqūwayh.
Indeed, the biographee himself also related ḥadith from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqqūr, Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Busrī(2), and a number of others.
He recited the Qur’an, in several modes of transmission, to the disciple of al-Ḥammāmī, Abū al-Khaṭṭāb Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣūfī.
Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Yaman al-Kindī—who recited to him in five different readings—and ʿUmar ibn Ṭabarzad.
He served as preacher in the Jāmiʿ al-Qaṣr mosque, was trustworthy and upright, and maintained uninterrupted fasting for more than fifty years.
He died in Jumādā al-Ūlā, in the year 537 AH.
71 – al-Biṭrawjī Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad *
The shaykh, imām, scholar, jurist, and eminent ḥadith master, Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bārī al-Andalusī, known as al-Biṭrawjī—and, some say, al-Biṭrawshī—of Cordoba.