Narrations from him were transmitted by: his grandson, the trustworthy ʿAdl ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad; his grandson through his daughter, Judge Kamāl al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥanafī; al-Barzalī; al-Ḍiyāʾ; Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Khallāl; al-Najm ibn al-Khabbāz; al-ʿIzz Aḥmad ibn al-ʿImād; and, in person, Judge Taqī al-Dīn.
Al-Ḍiyāʾ said, “He was devout and upright.”
Al-Mundhirī⦗1⦘ remarked, “Renowned for piety and goodness; in his later years he became weak and retired from public life.”
He passed away in Shaʿbān, 641 AH.
82 – Ibn al-Hubayr, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Muẓaffar al-Baghdādī *
The distinguished scholar and muftī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Muẓaffar ibn ʿAlī ibn Nuʿaym al-Baghdādī, a Shāfiʿī judge, known as Ibn al-Hubayr.
He was born in 559 AH⦗2⦘.
He received hadith from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Sulamī, from Shuhda the Scribe, and from Muḥammad
(1) Al-Takmila li-Wafayat al-Nuqala, vol. 3, entry 3131, p. 628, Muassasat al-Risala edition.
(*) Ibn al-Dubaythi, Tarikh (Paris MS 5921), fols. 175–176; al-Mundhiri, Al-Takmila li-Wafayat al-Nuqala, vol. 3, entry 3045; Mansur b. Salim, Dhayl ‘ala Mushtabih al-Asma (Dr. Bashar’s manuscript), fol. 64; al-Dhahabi, Al-‘Ibar, 5/162; idem, Tarikh al-Islam (Aya Sofya 3012), vol. 19, fol. 217; idem, Al-Mukhtasar al-Muhtaj Ilayh min Tarikh Ibn al-Dubaythi, 1/161–162, entry 313; al-Safadi, Al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, 5/207–208, entry 2271 (quoting Ibn al-Najjar); al-Subki, Tabaqat, 8/108–109, entry 1100; al-Isnawi, Tabaqat, 1/449, entry 405; Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 13/158; Ibn Rajab, Dhayl Tabaqat al-Hanabila (within the biography of his father), 2/63, entry 231; Ibn Nasir al-Din, Al-Tawdih, fol. 73; al-‘Ayni, ‘Aqd al-Juman, vol. 18, fol. 248; Ibn ‘Abd al-Hadi, Mu‘jam al-Shafi‘iyya, fol. 70; al-Katani, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 5/205; Al-Madaris al-Sharabiyya, p. 126.
(2) According to al-Hafiz al-Mundhiri, his birth took place in the first days of Muharram.