He also studied under Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Barrī, and Abū al-Mafākhir al-Maʾmūnī.
He transmitted Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim on more than one occasion.
Those who narrated from him include al-Mundhirī, al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Ẓāhirī, Fatḥ al-Dīn Ibn al-Qaysarānī, Shaykh Muḥammad al-Qazzāz, and others.
Al-Dimyāṭī said, “I read Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim to him twice, and he was gracious and kind to me (1).”
He passed away in Ramadan of 648 AH.
155 – Ibn al-Khayyir, Ibrāhīm ibn Maḥmūd ibn Sālim ibn Mahdī al-Baghdādī *
The shaykh, the imām, the Qur’an reciter, the jurist, the ḥadīth scholar, and the leading transmitter of Baghdad—Abū Isḥāq, also called Abū Muḥammad, Ibrāhīm ibn Maḥmūd ibn Sālim ibn Mahdī al-Baghdādī al-Azajī, the Ḥanbalī, widely known as Ibn al-Khayyir.
He was born in 563 AH.
He received a large body of transmissions from Fakhr al-Nisāʾ Shahdah, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Yūsufī, Khadījah bint al-Nahrwānī, Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Shātīl, al-Ḥasan ibn Shīrawayh, and a number of others.