Bakr, Bakkār ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muṣʿab ibn Thābit ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām ibn Khuwaylid ibn Asad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn Quṣayy ibn Kilāb—the Qurashī of the Banū Asad, Zubayrī by lineage, Medinan by origin and Meccan by residence.
He was born in 172 AH.
He received knowledge from: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah; Abū Ḍamrah al-Laythī; al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl; Ibn Abī Fudayk; Dhuaib ibn ʿImāmah; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nāfiʿ al-Ṣāʾigh; ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Madāʾinī; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zabālah; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn ʿUthmān; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mundhir; his uncle Muṣʿab ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Zubayrī; and many others.
Those who related from him include: Ibn Mājah in the Sunan; Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shabīb al-Rabaʿī; Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā; Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Azhar; Ḥaramī ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ al-Makkī—whose personal name was Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad; the judge Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Maḥāmalī; Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Warrāq; and Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Azraq. In the last years of his life he taught in Baghdad.
He is the author of Nasab Quraysh, a large and invaluable work (1).
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim said, “I met him and saw him, but I did not record anything from him” (2).