—and many others. Those who transmitted from him include Abū Dāʾūd, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, and a host of others, the last of them being ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Bundār, the teacher of the ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym.
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “Reliable.” (1)
I (the author) add: He lived into his nineties and died in Jumādā al-Ūlā of 276 AH.
His father was the ḥāfiẓ Abū Muḥammad Ismāʿīl ibn Sālim ibn Dīnār (2), one of Imām Muslim’s teachers whom he cites in his Ṣaḥīḥ; he had met ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād and Hushaym.
96 – Al-Balādhurī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Jābir *
The erudite scholar, man of letters, and prolific author, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Jābir al-Baghdādī—better known as al-Balādhurī—the court scribe and author of The Great History.
He heard ḥadith from Hawdhah ibn Khalīfah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿIjlī, ʿAffān, Abū ʿUbayd, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, Khalaf ibn Hishām, Shaybān ibn Farrūkh, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, and several others.
He sat in the company of the caliph al-Mutawakkil and served as his intimate companion.