218 – Ibn Baqā, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Baghdādī
The trustworthy and distinguished shaykh, the ḥadīth authority Ṣafī al-Dīn, Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz son of Abū al-Fatḥ Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Sālim ibn Muḥammad ibn Baqā al-Baghdādī, originally from as-Sīb (1), a Ḥanbalī, a merchant, a saffār, and a long-time resident of Egypt.
He was born in Ramaḍān 555 AH.
He studied ḥadīth with Abū Zurʿah al-Maqdisī, from whom he heard several books, as well as with Abū Bakr ibn al-Naqqūr, ʿAlī ibn ʿAsākir al-Baṭāʾiḥī, ʿAlī ibn Abī Saʿd, Yaḥyā ibn Thābit, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī, and a number of others.
He served as a witness before the judges, was devoted to reciting the Qur’an, and was known for his reliability and stature.
Those who narrated from him include: Ibn Nuqṭah, al-Mundhirī, al-Rashīd ʿUmar al-Fārūqī, Dāwūd ibn ʿAbd al-Qawī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maydūmī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim al-Khiyāmī—and his brother Ismāʿīl—the preacher ʿAlī ibn Naṣr Allāh al-Ṣawwāf, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Shihāb al-Muʾaddib, together with his brother ʿĪsā, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Qawī ibn ʿAzzūn, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Juhanī, Ghāzī al-Mashtūbī, Aḥmad ibn al-Aghlāqī, Isḥāq ibn Dirbās, Wahbān ibn ʿAlī the muʾadhdhin, Jibrīl ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Idrīsī, al-Bahāʾ ʿAlī ibn al-Qayyim, and Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abarqūhī.
The last person to receive an ijāzah from him was the judge Taqī al-Dīn Sulaymān.
(1) From as-Sīb, a suburb of Baghdad.