175 – Ibn Maymūn, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī * (D, S)
The ḥadith scholar, leading imam, and long-lived authority: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maymūn, originally from Baghdad and later from Alexandria.
He related ḥadith from al-Walīd ibn Muslim, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, Salm ibn Maymūn al-Khawwāṣ, and a host of others.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū Dāwūd and al-Nasāʾī—in their Sunan—Abū ʿAwānah, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, Ibn Jawṣā, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād, the “Imam of the Imams” Ibn Khuzaymah, and others, the last of whom was ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Maṭr al-Iskandarānī.
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said, “I wrote from him in Alexandria; he is truthful, reliable.” (1)
Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus reported that he died on the eleventh of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 262 AH.
176 – Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt ibn Khālid, Abū Masʿūd al-Rāzī ** (D)
The shaykh, imam, eminent ḥāfiẓ, authoritative proof, and ḥadith scholar of Isfahān,