and ʿAfrat was more proficient in hadith than he.
He passed away in Muḥarram of the year 564 AH.
He also wrote pleasing poetry, of which are these lines:
The hadith preservers are now few; the man of defects is shown respect,
While the valiant man of virtue is hurt despite his soundness;
Like the bow, deliberately safeguarded though naturally bent,
While the arrow is thrown aside on purpose for being straight. (1)
He lived a little over sixty years.
316 – Ibn al-Naqqūr, ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Baghdādī
Shaykh, hadith scholar, reliable and upright—Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allah, son of the shaykh Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad, son of the senior shaykh Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Naqqūr al-Baghdādī, the cloth-merchant.
He was born in the year 483 AH.
He heard (hadith) from al-Mubārak ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣayrafī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAllāf, Aḥmad ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn Sawsan, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Tikkakī, his father Abū Manṣūr, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bayān, Abū al-Barakāt Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Wakīl, Abū Saʿd al-Asadī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Rabiʿī, Hibat Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Narsi, Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥarīrī the littérateur, Hibat Allah ibn Aḥmad al-Mawṣilī, and many others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī, ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī, and ʿUmar