Ibn al-Dubaythī said: “A number of students completed their studies in grammar under al-Wajīh; he was extremely talkative (1). I copied from him several lyrical pieces.”

I add: “Among those who related from him was al-Zakī al-Barzalī, and he granted an authorisation to our teacher Aḥmad ibn Salāmah.”

62 – al-Bakrī, Abū al-Futūḥ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad

The noble, righteous scholar, ascetic, Fakhr al-Dīn, the last of the elders—Abū al-Futūḥ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmrūk al-Qurashī, al-Taymī, al-Bakrī, al-Nīsābūrī, the Ṣūfī.

Had he pursued auditions in keeping with his long life, he would have attained a very elevated chain of transmission, for he was born in 518 AH.

When already advanced in years he heard hadith from Abū al-Asʿad Hibat al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qushayrī; in Baghdad he heard from al-Ḥusayn ibn Khamīs al-Mawṣilī; and in the frontier city—together with his son—from Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī.

He later narrated in Baghdad, Mecca, Egypt, and Damascus, and he remained in the Holy Precinct for a period.

Those who received traditions from him include: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Barzalī, Ibn Khalīl, Abū Muḥammad al-Mundhirī, his grandson Sadr al-Dīn Abū ʿAlī, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Darajī, Ibn Abī ʿUmar, al-Fakhr ʿAlī, al-Shams ibn al-Kamāl, and others.