- Ibn al-Baṭṭī – Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī
The venerable shaykh, learned scholar, truthful narrator, and the musnid of Iraq: Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Aḥmad ibn Salmān (1) al-Baghdādī, the chamberlain, better known as Ibn al-Baṭṭī.
He was born in the year 477 AH.
His father took charge of his education from early childhood. He was granted an authorization by Naṣr ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī.
He heard ḥadith from: ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀṣimī; Mālik ibn Aḥmad al-Bāniyāsī; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Anbārī, the preacher; Rizq Allāh al-Tamīmī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Zikrī (2) al-Daqqāq; Ṭirād al-Zaynabī; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalḥah al-Niʿālī; Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlī ibn Fahd; Thābit ibn Bundār; Naṣr ibn al-Baṭir; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥumaydī; Ḥamd ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥaddād—from him he heard the entire book “al-Ḥilya”; Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Samarqandī, the Qur’an-reciter; Abū Bakr ibn al-Khāḍibah—who looked after him diligently and facilitated his audition; Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-Zubayrī, companion of al-Ḥurfī; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Yūsuf; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ayyūb; Abū Bakr al-Ṭuraythīthī; al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Busrī; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Rabʿī; Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Karkhī; ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Muḥammad al-Sāwī; and Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn