- Bakkār ibn Qutaybah ibn Asad ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Bashīr al-Thaqafī*—a descendant of the Prophet’s Companion Abū Bakrah Nufayʿ ibn al-Ḥārith al-Thaqafī, known as al-Bakrawī, al-Baṣrī; the eminent chief judge, erudite scholar, ḥadith expert, Abū Bakrah the jurist, a Ḥanafī, and Chief Justice of Egypt.
Birth: 182 AH, in Basra.
He studied under Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah, ʿAbd Allah ibn Bakr al-Sahmī, Abū ʿĀṣim, Wahb ibn Jarīr, Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir al-Ḍubāʿī, and others of their generation.
He devoted himself to ḥadith, wrote prolifically, excelled in the subsidiary questions of jurisprudence, authored works, and remained constantly engaged in scholarship.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū ʿAwānah in his Ṣaḥīḥ, Ibn Khuzaymah, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAttāb al-Ziftī, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, Ibn Jawṣā, Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, Ibn Ziyād al-Naysābūrī, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn al-Musayyab al-Arghiyānī, Abū ʿAlī ibn Ḥabīb al-Ḥaṣāʾirī, Abū al-Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Khāmī, Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn Ḥadhlam, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥudhayfah al-Dimashqī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Saydāwī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdūn ibn Khālid al-Naysābūrī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Nāqid, and many others from Egypt, Damascus, and the travelling scholars. He was counted among the judges celebrated for their justice.