in Aleppo (1), Judge ʿIyāḍ in Ceuta (2), and the grammarian Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd ibn Abī Rukab al-Khushanī (3).
173 – Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī*,
the long-lived shaykh and ḥadith transmitter, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Sharīk al-Baghdādī, the accountant.
He said, “I was born in the month of Ṣafar, in the year 461 AH.”
He heard ḥadith from his father and from Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqqūr.
al-Samʿānī said: “I wrote from him; he was in charge of estates, and every tongue agreed in speaking ill of him. They would say that he had no commendable conduct. He died in Ṣafar—or in the early days of Rabīʿ al-Awwal—of the year 548 AH (4).”
I say: Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Futūḥ Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Julājalī, al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, and others; he also granted an authorization to Muḥammad ibn ʿImād al-Ḥarrānī.
Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us; al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh the copyist informed us; Hibat Allāh ibn Abī Sharīk informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzāz informed us; he said: ʿĪsā ibn