Abū al-ʿAbbās (1) Aḥmad ibn Abī Ghālib ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, better known as Ibn al-Ṭallāyah al-Kāghadhī, the Baghdadi.

He was born in the year 462 AH.

He alone transmitted a fascicle from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī al-Anmāṭī; it is the ninth of the Mukhaḷṣiyyāt, selected by Ibn al-Baqqāl (2). He had memorised the Qur’an.

Al-Samʿānī said: “A venerable shaykh who spent his entire life in worship, standing for prayer and fasting; perhaps he never passed an hour of his life except in devotion. He became so stooped that one could scarcely distinguish his standing from his bowing. He was a memoriser of the Qur’an, would accept nothing from anyone, and was content with what little he had. I entered his mosque several times in the ʿAttābiyyīn quarter (3) and asked him, ‘Have you heard anything?’

He replied, ‘I heard from Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Anmāṭī.’”

Al-Samʿānī continued: “We were unable to secure that transmission, but I did read to him ‘A Refutation of the Jahmiyyah’ by Nifṭawayh, which he had heard from Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Quraysh; our shaykh Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Samarqandī attended the session with us.”

I say: His audition from al-Anmāṭī became known only after the ḥāfiẓ Abū Saʿd had left Baghdad. The fascicle was then transmitted on his authority by Yūnus ibn Yaḥyā al-Hāshimī and Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀqūlī,