ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥassān al-Baghdādī, al-Dāraqazzī, the tutor—better known as Ibn Tabarzadh.
Tabarzadh—with a dotted dhāl—is the word for refined sugar.
He was born in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 516 AH.
His brother, the learned ḥadīth scholar and instructor Abū al-Baqāʾ Muḥammad, read a great deal to him. He too attended auditions in person, acquired master copies, and memorised them.
Among those from whom he heard were Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, Abū Ghālib ibn al-Bannāʾ, Abū al-Mawāhib ibn Mulūk, Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh al-Shurūṭī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Zāghūnī, Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ṭabar, the judge Abū Bakr (1), Abū Manṣūr al-Qazzāz, Ibn al-Samarqandī, Ibn Khayrūn, Abū al-Badr al-Karkhī, Abū Saʿd al-Zawzanī, ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn al-Badin, Abū al-Fatḥ Mufliḥ al-Dūmī, ʿAlī ibn Ṭirād, and many others besides them.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Najjār, al-Ḍiyāʾ Muḥammad, and al-Zakī ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm,
= al-Dubaythi, fols. 200–202 (Paris 5922); Ibn al-Najjar, al-Tarikh al-mujaddad, fols. 119–120 (Paris); al-Takmila of al-Mundhiri, 2 / entry 1158; Dhayl al-Rawdatayn, 70–71, where his biography is mixed up with that of Abu Umar al-Maqdisi, who died the same year; Wafayat al-ayan, 3 / 452; Mashyakha al-Najib al-Harrani, fols. 106–109, where he is the fifty-eighth shaykh; al-Mustafad by al-Husam al-Dumyati, fol. 63; Tarikh al-Islam, 18 / 1 / 280–283; al-Mukhtasar al-muhtaj, fol. 91; al-Ibar, 5 / 24; Duwal al-Islam, 2 / 85; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya, 13 / 61; ‘Uqd al-Juman by al-‘Ayni, 17 / fol. 231; Tarikh Ibn al-Furat, 9 / fol. 48; al-Nujum al-zahira, 6 / 201; Shadharat al-dhahab, 5 / 26; al-Taj al-mukallal, 94–95.
Ibn Khallikan spells Tabarzad explicitly: “open ta, plain ba, silent ra, open za, then a dotted dhal.”
This notice is far more extensive than the one in Tarikh al-Islam and bears no real relation to it; see our introduction, where we showed that al-Siyar is not an abridgement of Tarikh al-Islam.
(1) Muhammad b. Abd al-Baqi al-Ansari, known as the judge of the Maristan.