and Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad, the son of the musnid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd al-Masʿūdī, al-Banjadīhī, al-Marwazī, al-Ṣūrī.
He was born in 522 AH.
He studied under his father, under ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Aḥmad when the latter was very old, under Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Ghānīmī, Abū al-Naḍr al-Fāmī, Abū al-Waqt ʿAbd al-Awwal, Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Turaykī al-Baghdādī, Ibn Rifāʿah al-Saʿdī, Masʿūd al-Thaqafī, ʿAbd al-Ṣabūr ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, the ḥadith master al-Silafī, and several others.
He dictated ḥadith gatherings in Egypt in 575 AH.
He served as the tutor of al-Malik al-Afḍal, the sultan’s son.
He produced a large commentary on the Maqāmāt, amassed a sizable library, and the ḥadith critics judged him layyin al-ḥadith (soft in reliability). (1)
Al-Mundhirī (2) said: “Al-Silafī copied poetic choruses from him, and among those who transmitted from him to us were Ibn al-Mufaḍḍal and others.”
I add: so did Zayn al-Umānāʾ, al-Tāj al-Qurṭubī, al-Nūr al-Balkhī, and the like.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Khalīl (3) remarked: “Nothing in his transmissions was trustworthy or dependable.”
Ibn al-Najjār (4) said: “He was a man of excellence in every field, and one of the wittiest…"