Those who transmitted from him were al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Sarrāj, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Jaʿfar al-Firyābī, and many others besides.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal said, “ʿAmr al-Nāqid was scrupulous about truthfulness.”
Abū Ḥātim said, “Reliable and trustworthy.”
Al-Ḥusayn ibn Fahm said, “He was reliable, a ḥadith scholar and jurist, one of the distinguished ḥuffāẓ.”
He died on the fourth of Dhū al-Ḥijjah in 232 AH, in Baghdad.
More than one historian has given the same date within that month.
I read to Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq; al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Salām informed us; Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqqūr informed us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī dictated to us, saying:
“It was read to Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī—while I was listening—‘ʿAmr al-Nāqid has narrated to you; Sufyān narrated to us; ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “The prayer of one who sits is worth half the prayer of one who stands.”’ (1)
56 – Khalaf ibn Sālim Abū Muḥammad al-Sindi al-Muhallabī* (S)
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and precision narrator, Abū Muḥammad al-Sindi al-Muhallabī al-Baghdādī, client of the family of