Anas, stating that the Prophet — may Allah bless him and grant him peace — forbade the use of dubbāʾ (gourd vessels) and muzaffat (pitch-coated containers) for preparing nabīdh. (1)
203 – al-Mubārak ibn Kāmil ibn Abī Ghālib al-Khaffāf al-Baghdādī,
the shaykh, the scholar, the ḥadith-expert, the instructor of Iraq, Abū Bakr al-Baghdādī, al-Ẓafarī (2).
Birth: the year 490 AH.
He received ḥadith from Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bayān, Abū ʿAlī ibn Nabhan (3), Ibn Fathān al-Shahrazūrī, Abū Ṭālib ibn Yūsuf, Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, and crowds beyond counting.
He devoted his life to the quest for knowledge, writing from everyone who walked the earth and then passed on, gathering both elevated and ordinary chains. Whenever he heard that a narrator had arrived, he would rush to hear from him.
Ibn al-Jawzī (4) said: “Abū Bakr al-Mufīd — his father was known as al-Khaffāf — heard from a great many people. He never ceased listening, pursuing the shaykhs in their corners and copying their audition certificates. Were someone to claim that he heard from three thousand shaykhs, that claim would not be rejected, and to him culminated the knowledge of…"