, travelling far and wide; he was nicknamed al-Musnadi. He was counted among the well-known men of probity and veracity, a champion of the Sunnah and the mainstream, and distinguished for precision. I saw him in Wāsiṭ: he was of comely stature, with white hair and beard. He then returned to Bukhara and died there. (1)
It is related from Khalaf ibn ʿĀmir, from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Bukhārī, who said:
‘Al-Ḥasan ibn Shujāʿ said to me, “How could any hadith slip past you when you have come upon this treasure?!”’—meaning al-Musnadi. (2)
Abū Jaʿfar al-Musnadi said: ‘I bade farewell to al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ and asked him, “Advise me.” He replied, “Be the tail and do not be the head.”’
Al-Bukhārī said: ‘Al-Musnadi died with six days remaining of Dhū al-Qaʿdah in the year 229 AH.’ (3)
239 – al-Muqaddamī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr* (B, M, S)
The Imām, muḥaddith, ḥāfiẓ, and trustworthy authority: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAṭāʾ ibn Muqaddam al-Thaqafī, their client, from Basra, the father of the hadith scholar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad.
He transmitted from his uncle ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Muqaddamī, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Abū ʿAwānah, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ, Yūsuf ibn al-Mājashūn, and ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād al-Muhallabī,