Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, and he used to comment on the traditions in most graceful terms (1).
Ibn al-Najjar said: “He was an imam in asceticism and ḥadith, a preacher. Shuʿjāʿ al-Dhuhlī and Ibn Nāṣir wrote from him. Whenever he ate, his eyes would fill with tears and he would say, ‘David—peace be upon him—whenever he wished to eat, would weep.’” (2)
Abū l-Fath Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Naṭanzī (3) said: “I was in Baghdad when Abū Saʿd al-Baghdādī borrowed ten dinars from me. Later I visited the sultan, Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad, and mentioned the matter to him. He sent with me five hundred dinars for Abū Saʿd, but Abū Saʿd refused to accept them.” (4)
Ibn al-Jawzī (5) said: “Abū Saʿd performed the pilgrimage eleven times and journeyed on many other occasions. I heard a great deal from him and witnessed his refined manners and noble qualities. He died at Nahāwand, on his return from the pilgrimage, in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of the year 540 AH. His body was carried to Isfahan, where he was buried.”
ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Ḥājī said: “He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the same year.”
His son, Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn al-Baghdādī, died in Isfahan in 558 AH.
He narrated from Abū Muṭīʿ, Abū l-Fath al-Ḥaddād, and others.
Jamāl al-Dīn transmitted to us the book Maʿrifat al-Ṣaḥābah by Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manda.