He came to Damascus on a trading journey, and after the Christians seized Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem) he settled there for good. He kept the company of the jurist Naṣr Allah al-Maṣṣīṣī.
Transmitters who later narrated from him include: the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir, his son al-Qāsim, Abū al-Mawāhib ibn Ṣaṣrā, his brother Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥusayn, and others. He died in Shawwāl 553 AH. A fascicle of his higher-isnād material has reached me.
246 – Ibn Qafrajl, Aḥmad ibn al-Mubārak ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Baghdādī*
The reliable shaykh and hadith transmitter, Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn al-Mubārak ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad ibn Qafrajl al-Baghdādī, al-Dhahabī, the cotton-dealer, Qurʾān-reciter. He was the brother of Shaykh Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn al-Mubārak—who narrated from Ṭirād and died ten years before Abū al-Qāsim.
Abū al-Qāsim heard from: ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan, Ṭirād ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī, Rizq Allah al-Tamīmī, al-Faḍl ibn Abī Ḥarb al-Jurjānī, Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn Abī ʿUthmān, Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn, and Abū Ṭāhir al-Bāqillānī.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Samʿānī, Saʿd ibn Ṭāhir al-Balkhī, Zayd ibn Yaḥyā al-Bayyiʿ, Muḥammad ibn Layth al-Wasṭānī, and several others. He also granted an ijāza to Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muqayyir.
He was a modest shaykh, unobjectionable in his reliability. He passed away in 556 AH, in the ninety-something years of his life.