Ibn Abī Ḥātim said, “I wrote down ḥadith from him together with my father, and I heard Mūsā ibn Isḥāq the judge extol his worth and elevate his standing (1).”

Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad, the ḥāfiẓ, remarked, “He was firmly reliable, uncompromising with the people of innovation.”

I say: He passed away in Jumādā al-Ūlā of the year 285 AH.

He belonged to the generation of al-Firyābī and his peers; I have only brought his notice forward because of the early date of his death.

He died in the eighties.

185 – ʿUbayd ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Sharīk al-Baghdādī al-Bazzār *
The ḥadith scholar and instructor, Abū Muḥammad al-Baghdādī al-Bazzār.

He heard ḥadith from Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, Abū Ṣāliḥ, Ādam ibn Abī Iyās, Abū al-Jamāhir al-Kafrasūsī, Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād, and several others.

Among those who narrated from him were ʿUthmān ibn al-Sammāk, Ibn Najīḥ, al-Ṭasṭī (2), al-Najjād, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, and others.

Al-Dāraqutnī said, “Trustworthy.”

Al-Khaṭīb (3) said, “He died in Rajab of the year 285 AH.”

I add: Some of his higher-level isnāds are preserved in al-Ghaylāniyyāt.