al-Khatīb; a shaykh transmitted it from him in the early six-hundred-and-eighties AH. I read the Sīra with al-Abarqūhī on the strength of his audition from al-Khatīb in Ṣafar 621 AH, and he died that same year, on the last day of Shawwāl.
134 – Ibn Mukarram, Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Mukarram al-Baghdādī*
The righteous, ascetic traditionist, Shaykh Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Mukarram ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī, the Sufi.
He was born in 537 AH (1).
He heard ḥadith from his father, from Abū al-Faḍl al-Urmuwī, Muḥammad ibn Nāṣir, al-Muʿammar ibn Aḥmad al-Anṣārī, Abū al-Waqt al-Sijzī, and a host of others.
His father narrated from Naṣr ibn al-Baṭir, and his brother al-Mukarram was among the transmitters of “The Anṣārī Section.”
Those who reported from him include al-Ḍiyāʾ and Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim (2).
Abū Jaʿfar taught the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī in Irbil.
Among his students were Ibn al-Dubaythī, Ibn al-Najjār, al-Barzalī, Jamāl Muḥammad ibn al-Dabbāb, Imām Majd al-Dīn ibn al-Ẓahīr, the judge Shams al-Dīn Ibn Khallikān (3), his brother Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad—the qāḍī of Baʿlabakk—and many others.