Abū Ḥusayn al-Baghdādī, al-Saqlāṭūnī, al-Ḥarīmī, and Ibn al-ʿUlabbī the Sufi.

He was born at the beginning of the year 548 AH. He received hadith from his father, from Abū al-Waqt al-Sijzī, and from Abū al-Maʿālī Ibn al-Laḥḥās.

Those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Najjār, Ibn al-Majd, Abū al-Muẓaffar Ibn al-Nābulusī, al-Majd ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Khalīlī, al-Taqī Ibn al-Wāsiṭī, al-Shams Ibn al-Zayn, al-ʿImād Ismāʿīl Ibn al-Ṭabbāl, al-Shihāb al-Abarqūhī, and a number of others. By written authorization he also transmitted to Fakhr Ibn ʿAsākir, Qāḍī Taqī al-Dīn the Ḥanbalī, and Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Shīrāzī.

He belonged to the Sufis of the ribāṭ of Shaykh Abū al-Najīb. A man of few words, he scarcely spoke except in reply.

I read (1) in the handwriting of Ibn al-Majd: “I saw that his name had been appended to the cohort of the Musnad of ʿAbd. In later days he began to charge a fee for attendance and said so openly, so a group listened to him recite the Book of al-Dārimī and the Book ‘Condemnation of Kalām.’ When the session ended they said, ‘A little remains; we shall return tomorrow and pay you.’

“They never returned, whereupon he cursed them and disparaged them.”

I say: He died at the beginning of Rabīʿ al-Awwal in the year 631 AH.

Among the texts he had heard were al-Miʾa al-Shurayḥiyya and the second portion of the hadith of Majjaʿa, both of which he received from Ibn al-Laḥḥās.