in ḥadith; he lived to a ripe old age. He wrote to me listing the traditions he transmitted: he relates the Muwaṭṭaʾ through ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥadīthī, from Zāhir ibn Aḥmad al-Sarakhsī; and he relates the Tafsīr of Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī from al-Wakhshī, from Tamīm ibn Zurʿa, from him. He also transmitted, through al-Wakhshī, Sunan Abī Dāwūd and several other Qurʾānic commentaries. He then added (1): “He passed away in Balkh, in Jumādā al-Ūlā of the year 537 AH.”
102 – Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Sayyid ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī*
The upright, trustworthy, and learned Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī, son of the distinguished Shāfiʿī scholar Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-Sayyid ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn al-Ṣabbāgh al-Baghdādī.
He heard ḥadith from his father, from Abū Muḥammad al-Ṣarīfīnī, and from Ṭirād al-Zaynabī.
Those who narrated from him include al-Salafī, Ibn ʿAsākir (2), al-Samʿānī, Ḥamzah ibn al-Qubayṭī, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Abī al-Najīb, Zāhir ibn Rustum, Yūsuf ibn al-Khaffāf, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀqūlī, Sulaymān al-Mawṣilī, his brother Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, and ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn al-ʿAlāʾ.
Ibn al-Najjār said: “He was counted among the reliable authorities of Baghdad.”
Al-Samʿānī said: “A shaykh who is trustworthy, righteous, truthful, and of commendable conduct.” He told me: “I was born at the end of the year 61.”