A large circle of students acquired their juristic training from him; among them were Saʿīd ibn Faḥlūn (1) and Muḥammad ibn Fuṭays.
It is also said—al-Ḥumaydī reports this (2)—that his kunya was Abū ʿUmar.
Maghāmah is a village in the district of Toledo.
Al-Ḥumaydī likewise related that some held he died in 283 AH, while another report places his death in 285 AH (3).
- Ibn Ukht Ghazāl, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd al-Baghdādī
The Imām, hadith master, and meticulous scholar, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Baghdādī, a resident of Egypt, better known as “Ibn Ukht Ghazāl.”
He narrated from Saʿīd ibn Dāwūd al-Zanbarī (4), Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ḥarrānī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣayqal, and others besides them.
Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus said: “He had memorised hadith and understood them well. He taught in Egypt, then travelled to a village in Lower Egypt, where he died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal of 264 AH. He was reliable and his narrations were sound.” (5)