139 – ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Dāwūd ibn Mihrān ibn Ziyād al-Bakrī * (Kh, D, S, Q)
An imam, traditionist, and trustworthy transmitter—Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Bakrī, originally from Ḥarrān, later an Egyptian, though born in Ifrīqiyyah.
He was born in 140 AH.
His father took him away while he was still a child; he grew up in Basra, studied jurisprudence, committed knowledge to writing, and then returned with his father to Egypt.
He heard hadith from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Qiṭbānī, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿah, Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qāriʾ, Abū al-Malīḥ al-Raqī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, and others.
Those who transmitted from him include al-Bukhārī; through an intermediary, Abū Dāwūd; al-Nasāʾī; Ibn Mājah; Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī; Abū Bakr al-Athram; Abū Zurʿah al-Naṣrī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥammād al-Āmulī; ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Nāfiʿ al-Ṭaḥḥān; al-Miqdām ibn Dāwūd al-Ruʿaynī; Mūsā ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Mundhir; Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb al-ʿAllāf; Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān al-Sahmī; Aḥmad ibn Zughbah, and a great many others.
He was known for his learning, dignity, and prestige.
Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus said: His mother was the daughter of Saʿīd ibn Yazīd al-Azdī.