and al-ʿUlaymī, the ḥadith master ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Shaykh al-Muwaffaq, Muḥammad ibn ʿImād, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Bāqā, Fakhr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Irbilī, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf, and many others.
ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī said: “Abū Bakr pursued knowledge on his own; he studied, wrote, and was a man of religion and uprightness. In careful verification he held a lofty rank—rarely have I seen among our shaykhs anyone more scrupulous (1) than he.”
Ibn Mashshiq said: “He died on the tenth of Shaʿbān, 565 AH.”
317 – Ibn Hilāl, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Musallam al-Azdī*
The eminent shaykh, upright, trustworthy, and musnid: Abū al-Makārim ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Musallam ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hilāl al-Azdī, the Damascene.
His father personally had him attend and hear a portion of the ḥadīth of Khaythamah from Shaykh ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Kafraṭābī.
He also heard from al-Sharīf al-Nasīb, Abū Ṭāhir al-Ḥinnāʾī, and Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Mawāzīnī.
He received authorisations from the jurist Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maqdisī, Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isfarāyīnī, and ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Kalāʿī.
He was born in Jumādā al-Ūlā of the year 489 AH.
He alone transmitted some of his narrations and ijāzahs from Naṣr and others.