ibn Dallawayh al-Baghdādī, the Ṭayālisī, surnamed Zagāth. He heard ḥadith from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqrīʾ, Abū Nuʿaym, ʿAffān, Abū Bakr al-Ḥumaydī, and others of their standing.
Those who transmitted from him include Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, Muḥammad ibn al-Bakhtarī, Aḥmad ibn Kāmil, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, and many more.
Al-Dāraqutnī declared him trustworthy, and Aḥmad ibn al-Munādī said, “He was counted among the ḥuffāẓ.” He also stated that the shaykh died in Shawwāl of the year 277 AH (1).
A group who had heard ʿUmar ibn Ṭabrazad related to us; Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn then related to us; Ibn Ghaylān related to us; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī narrated to us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṭayālisī reported to us; Abū Ghassān informed us; ʿUmārah—meaning Ibn Zādān—narrated to us, from Thābit, from Anas:
“The Prophet ﷺ was fond of dubbāʾ—that is, gourd.” (2)
242 – Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ṭālib Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zibriqān al-Baghdādī*
The imām, traditionist, and scholar, Abū Bakr al-Baghdādī, brother of al-ʿAbbās and al-Faḍl.