23 – Ibn Bahrūz, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd al-Baghdādī*

The distinguished shaykh, authoritative ḥadīth transmitter, long-lived scholar, and physician, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd ibn Bahrūz al-Baghdādī.

Through the facilitation of his maternal uncle Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṣadr he received from Abū al-Waqt al-Sijzī three works: the Musnad of ʿAbd, the Sunan of al-Dārimī, and Dhamm al-Kalām.

He also heard from Abū al-Fath ibn al-Baṭṭī, Abū Zurʿa ibn Ṭāhir, and Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Muʿammar al-ʿAlawī, and for a period he was the only person in Baghdad to have personally heard from Abū al-Waqt.

Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Nābulusī, Ibn Balbān, al-Sharīshī, al-Fārūthī, al-Gharrāfī, his brother Muḥammad, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ashqar—the preacher of the Ḥaram—Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Badr, his sister Sitt al-Mulūk, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Saʿādāt, Yūsuf ibn Ṣaʿnīn, and others.

By written ijāza, the Hanbalī judge, Ibn Saʿd, al-Muṭʿim, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, Ibn al-Shiḥna, and several additional scholars also transmitted from him.

His grandfather Bahrūz was of Persian stock; he had come to Baghdad to pursue the study of medicine.