Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; Abū Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah informed us; Hibat Allah ibn al-Ḥasan informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAlī al-Daqqāq informed us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to us; Aḥmad ibn al-Faraj al-Jushamī reported to us; ʿAwn ibn ʿUmārah reported to us; Ḥumayd, on the authority of Anas — may Allah be pleased with him — said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared, “At Your service for both a ḥajj and an ʿumrah.”
This report is agreed upon (1), transmitted through Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl and others from Anas ibn Mālik.
Ibn al-Najjār said: “He was truthful and possessed sound audition; he was the last man to narrate from ʿĀṣim and from Ibn Abī ʿUthmān.”
299 – Al-Bājisrāʾī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Muḥammad
The shaykh and leading transmitter, Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥanīfah al-Bājisrāʾī, known as al-Tāniʾ (2), a resident of Baghdad.
He auditioned from Naṣr ibn al-Baṭar, al-Niʿālī, Thābit ibn Bundār, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Busrī, and many others, and he transmitted a large body of material.
Encumbered by debt, he moved to Hamadhān, where he died.
Those who narrated from him include the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Shaykh al-Muwaffaq, and Muḥammad ibn ʿImād.