He narrated from: al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl, ʿUmar ibn Yūnus, Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī, Rawḥ, and a number of others.
Narrators who reported from him include: Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, al-Maḥāmilī, and many others; Muslim also cited him in works other than the Ṣaḥīḥ.
Abū Ḥātim said: ṣadūq (reliable).(1)
I say: he died in 257 AH.
170 – al-Ramādī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Baghdādī (Q)
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, and meticulous authority: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr ibn Sayyār ibn Muʿārik, al-Ramādī al-Baghdādī.
He narrated from: ʿAbd al-Razzāq—making use of his written collections—Zayd ibn al-Ḥabbāb, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, al-Aswad ibn ʿĀmir, ʿAffān, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bukayr, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Fāris, Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl, Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, Muḥammad ibn Wahb al-Dimashqī, and many others across the Ḥijāz, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt.
He was a true repository of knowledge.
Among those who narrated from him are: Ibn Mājah, Ismāʿīl the Judge, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, and Abū—