232 – Ibn Mashiq, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Mubārak al-Baghdādī*
The Imām, the eminent, the ḥadīth scholar, “the Teacher of Baghdad,” Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Mubārak ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Baghdādī, a merchant by trade, known as Ibn Mashiq.
He was born in 533 AH. His father arranged for him to hear ḥadīth while he was still young, after which he sought knowledge on his own.
He heard ḥadīth from Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ashqar, the judge Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Urmawī, Saʿīd ibn al-Bannāʾ, Saʿd al-Khayr al-Andalusī, and others after them.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Najjār, al-Ḍiyāʾ, al-Najīb ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, and a number of others.
He granted ijāzah to al-Fakhr ʿAlī and to Ismāʿīl al-ʿAsqalānī. He was truthful, affable, and of pleasing conduct.
Al-Dubaythī (1) said: “He transmitted only a small amount, but he compiled al-Muʿjam (2), and his thabats (registers of authorities) reached six volumes. About three years before his death he became confused, to the point that nothing he related was accurate, so people abandoned him.”
He died on the eleventh of Shaʿbān 605 AH.
In that same year also died: Abū al-Fatḥ al-Mandāʾī, the judge Ṣadr al-Dīn Ibn Dirbās, the chief Qurʾān reciter Abū al-Jūd al-Lakhmī, and al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Naṣr al-Ḥarīmī ibn