He studied the works of Abū al-Saʿādāt Ibn al-Athīr directly with their author, and he heard ḥadīth from Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī, Manṣūr al-Ṭabarī, al-Qāsim ibn ʿAsākir, and a number of others. He transmitted the Musnad of Abū Yaʿlā as well as the Jāmiʿ al-Uṣūl, and his home was a gathering place for scholars. Among those who narrated from him were al-Ṣadr al-Qūnawī, al-Dimyāṭī, Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Māksīnī, and al-ʿImād, the preacher of the Musallā. He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal ⦗1⦘, in the year 645 AH ⦗2⦘, at the age of eighty-two ⦗3⦘.
152 – ʿAjībah Ḍawʾ al-Ṣabāḥ bint Muḥammad ibn Abī Gālib al-Bāqidārī *
The venerable shaykha, long-lived transmitter, Ḍawʾ al-Ṣabāḥ, daughter of the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Abī Gālib ibn Aḥmad ibn Marzūq al-Bāqidārī of Baghdad. She heard ḥadīth from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manṣūr al-Mawṣilī and ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī, and was granted ijāza by Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Rustamī, Masʿūd al-Thaqafī, Abū al-Khayr al-Bāghbān, his cousin Abū Rashīd, Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Shiblī, and Rajāʾ ibn Ḥāmid al-Maʿdānī.