of Harran, Abu Bakr ʿAbd Allah ibn Naṣr al-Hanbali; ʿAbd al-Barr ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ al-Hamadhani; ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-Harastani; Abu Bakr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAlī al-Sumāti (1); the authority ʿAbd al-Muḥsin ibn Abī al-ʿAmīd al-Khafīfī; al-Muʿaẓẓam ʿĪsā ibn al-ʿĀdil; the musnid al-Fath ibn ʿAbd al-Salām; and Abu Hurayra Muḥammad ibn al-Layth al-Wasṭānī.
155 – Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, al-Fath ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdadi
The venerable, long-lived shaykh, musnid of Iraq, ʿAmīd al-Dīn, Abū al-Faraj al-Fath ibn Abī Manṣūr ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad, grandson of the shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Yaḥyā al-Baghdadi, the scribe.
He came from a family of scribes and transmitters.
He was born on the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ, in 537 AH.
Among those from whom he received ḥadith were: his grandfather Abū al-Fath; the judge Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Urmuwī; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭarāʾifī; Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn al-Dāyah; Aḥmad ibn Ṭāhir al-Mīhānī; Hibat Allah ibn Abī Sharīk; Abū Bakr ibn al-Zāghūnī; and the Chief Judge