He heard from: ʿAmr ibn Abī Salamah al-Tinnīsī (1), Asad ibn Mūsā, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firyābī, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqriʾ, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām, and others of their rank.

He acquired maʿrifat al-rijāl (expertise in narrator evaluation) from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn.

Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muʿāfā, ʿUmar ibn Bujayr, and a group besides them.

He died, still in the prime of life, before the usual age for extensive narration.

Ibn Muʾnis said: “He is reliable; he narrated the Maghāzī (accounts of the Prophet’s campaigns).” He added: “He came to be known as al-Barqī only because they used to trade in Barqah.”

Muḥammad died in the year 249 AH.

His brother:

33 – Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Barqī *

The traditionist, ḥāfiẓ, and truthful authority, Abū Bakr.

He heard from: ʿAmr ibn Abī Salamah, Asad al-Sunnah, Ibn Hishām, Abū Ṣāliḥ, and several others.

He composed a book on the Companions, their biographies, and their genealogies, and he was counted among the leading imams of ḥadith tradition.

Among those who narrated from him are: Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Madāʾinī, al-Ṭaḥāwī, and many others.

A riding animal kicked him, and he died in the month of Ramaḍān, in the year 270 AH (2), and he was among