Ahmad left behind his son—the ḥāfiẓ, the verifying imam—Abū ʿAbd Allah.

132 – Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr al-Baghdādī *

He heard hadith from his father, from Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Jahḍhamī, ʿAbbād ibn Yaʿqūb al-Rawājini, ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣayrafī, Bundār, and the rest of that generation.

Among those who narrated from him are: Aḥmad ibn Kāmil, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, Ibn Miqsam the Qurʾān-reciter, and others.

Aḥmad ibn Kāmil said, “There were four men whose company I longed to keep: Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Barbarī, Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Khaythamah, and al-Maʿmarī; I never met anyone with sharper memory than they.”

Al-Khaṭīb remarked, “His father, Abū Bakr, used to rely on him when composing the History.”

He died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 297 AH.

I say: He was born sometime in the seventies.

Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to us in 694 AH; he said: Imām Muwaffaq al-Dīn ʿAbd Allah ibn Qudāmah related to us in 616 AH; he said: Hibat Allah ibn al-Ḥasan related to us; he said: ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAlī al-Daqqāq related to us; he said: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Muʿaddal related to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Razzāz related to us; he said: Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr related to us; he said: Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad and Mūsā ibn Dāʾūd related to us, saying:

Shaybān narrated to us, from Manṣūr, from Ibrāhīm, from al-Aswad, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:

“When one of us began her menstrual period, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would instruct her to wrap a waist-cloth around herself, and then he would engage in physical intimacy with her.”