186 – al-Bāghandī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn al-Ḥārith *
The imām, ḥadith scholar, learned authority, and trustworthy narrator Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn al-Ḥārith al-Wāsiṭī, better known as al-Bāghandī, was the father of the eminent ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad.
He transmitted ḥadith from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, Abū ʿĀṣim, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, Abū Nuʿaym, Qabīṣah, Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ, Khallād ibn Yaḥyā, al-Qaʿnabī, and others.
Those who related from him include his son, the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr; the judge al-Maḥāmilī; Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār; Abū Bakr al-Najjād; Ibn Miqsam; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī; ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Rūbā ⦗1⦘, and many others.
It has been said that Abū Dāwūd sat before him and received narrations from him.
Al-Khaṭīb said, “I heard Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Fawāris say, ‘He is weak.’”
Al-Sulamī reported, “I asked al-Dāraqutnī about him and he replied, ‘There is nothing wrong with him.’”
Al-Khaṭīb also remarked, “All of his narrations are sound.” ⦗2⦘
He died at the end of the year 283 AH.
I add: he was in his nineties.