and Abū Tamām al-Ṭāʾī, Ḥabīb ibn Aws—the foremost poet of his age—Khalid ibn Mirdās, Sulaymān ibn Dāʾūd al-Khuttalī, Sahl ibn Zanjalah al-Rāzī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Asmāʾ, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sallām al-Jumaḥī and his brother Muḥammad ibn Sallām, ʿAlī ibn Ḥakīm al-Awdī, Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah, Muḥammad ibn al-Minhāl al-Tamīmī—the blind man—Muḥammad ibn al-Minhāl al-ʿAṭṭār, the brother of Ḥajjāj; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, the judge of Damascus; Muḥammad ibn Ziyād ibn al-Aʿrābī; Hārūn ibn Maʿrūf; Minjāb ibn al-Ḥārith; Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr al-Miṣrī; Abū Yaʿqūb al-Buwayṭī, and some of them have already been mentioned.
127 – Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baghawī * (ʿ)
The Imām, ḥāfiẓ, and trusted authority, Abū Jaʿfar al-Baghawī, later known as al-Baghdādī.
His family originally hailed from Marw al-Rūdh.
He travelled widely, gathered ḥadīths, and compiled the Musnad.
He narrated from Hushaym, ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Marwān ibn Shujāʿ, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Ḥāzim, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, and their peers, as well as those who came after them.
The Six canonical compilers transmitted from him, though al-Bukhārī only through an intermediary. Others who related from him include his grandson—the leading musnid of his time—Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nājiya, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, Isḥāq ibn Jamīl, and many more besides.