Bakr, Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr ibn Salamah ibn al-Jārūd ibn Yazīd, al-Jārūdī al-Naysābūrī.

Al-Ḥākim mentions him, saying: “The foremost shaykh of his day, the very eye of the scholars of his age in memorisation and accomplishment, a model to follow, a man of authority and of means.”

He studied under Ishāq ibn Rāhwayh, ʿAmr ibn Zurārah, Suwayd ibn Saʿīd, Ismāʿīl ibn Mūsā al-Suddī, Ibn Abī al-Shawārib, ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī al-Fallās, Abū Kurayb, Ḥumayd ibn Masʿadah, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Jarjarāʾī (1), and many others.

Those who transmitted from him include Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Khuzaymah, al-Muʾammal ibn al-Ḥasan, Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī, Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, Yaḥyā ibn Manṣūr the judge, and others.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim said: “I heard from him in Rayy; he is reliable, one of the ḥuffāẓ (2).”

Al-Ḥākim also said: “His household followed the Ḥanafī school.”

Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim related: “Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī used to seek the assistance of Abū Bakr al-Jārūdī’s command of Arabic and would have him lodge with him overnight (3).”

Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim said: “His journey for knowledge was undertaken alongside Muslim [ibn al-Ḥajjāj]; he used to boast of that and rely on him in all his affairs until Muslim passed away.”