26 – Ibn al-Akhḍar, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Maḥmūd al-Junābadī*
The Imām, learned scholar, hadith master, ḥāfiẓ, long-lived transmitter, and foremost teacher of Iraq: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Naṣr Maḥmūd ibn al-Mubārak ibn Maḥmūd, originally from Junābad, a Baghdadi by residence, merchant and cloth-dealer, widely known as Ibn al-Akhḍar.
He was born in 524 AH and began attending hadith sessions in 530 AH.
He received transmission from: the judge Abū Bakr (1); Abū al-Qāsim Ibn al-Samarqandī; Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṭarrāḥ; ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Tawbah; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī; Abū Manṣūr ibn Khayrūn; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Salām; Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Baghdādī; Abū al-Faḍl al-Urmawī; Abū al-Faḍl ibn Nāṣir; and Ibn al-Baṭṭī.
He composed and compiled works, copied from his peers, and narrated for nearly sixty years. He was trustworthy, insightful, pious, righteous, and chaste.
Ibn al-Dubaythī (2) said: “I have not seen among our teachers anyone with more shaykhs than Ibn al-Akhḍar, nor anyone who attended more sittings of audition. He taught for many years in the Palace Mosque.”