I say: Among those who transmitted his reports were al-Samʿānī, Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-ʿAṭṭār, his son ʿAbd al-Birr, Dāwūd ibn Maʿmar, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Rūdhrawarī, Aḥmad ibn Shahrayār, ʿAbd al-Hādī ibn ʿAlī the preacher, Wakīʿ ibn Mankadīm, ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Mandawiyya, and several others.
Ibn al-Najjār said: He died on Laylat al-Qadr in 549 AH. Another opinion holds that his death occurred in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of 550 AH.
179 – Ibn al-Bannāʾ, Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī*
The righteous, benevolent, and truthful shaykh, the musnid (chief hadith authority) of Baghdad—Abū al-Qāsim Saʿīd, son of Shaykh Abū Ghālib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Bannāʾ al-Baghdādī, a Hanbalī.
Birth: 467 AH.
He studied hadith with Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Busrī, Abū Naṣr al-Zaynabī, ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan, and others.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn ʿAsākir ⦗1⦘, Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī, Ibn al-Jawzī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Ghazzāl, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maḥāsin, ʿAlī ibn Mubārak al-Ṣāʾigh, Rayḥān ibn Tīkān the blind man, Mūsā the son of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir, Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Rashīdī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāʾ, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Mubārak al-Mushtirī, Thābit ibn Musharraf, Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Qāsim ibn Kūrr, Ẓafar ibn Sālim al-Bayṭār, Mismār ibn al-ʿUways, and al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd.