283 – Ibn ʿAlluyah, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī
The shaykh, the imam, the reliable authority: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn ʿAlluyah, a cotton-merchant from Baghdad.
He heard ḥadith from ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAlī, Bashshār ibn Mūsā, ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿĀʾisha, Bishr ibn al-Walīd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Jarjarāʾī, and Ismāʿīl ibn ʿĪsā al-ʿAṭṭār, the transmitter of al-Mubtadaʾ, as well as many others.
Among those who narrated from him are al-Najjād, al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad ibn Sindi al-Ḥaddād, Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Ṣawwāf, al-Ājurrī, Makhlad al-Baqraḥī, and ʿAbd Allah ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zabībī (1).
Both al-Dāraqutnī and al-Khaṭīb declared him reliable (2).
He was born in 205 AH and died in 298 AH.
In that same year there also died: Abū (3) al-ʿAbbās ibn Masrūq, Buhlūl ibn Isḥāq (4), al-Junayd ibn Muḥammad, the shaykh of the Sufis (5), and Abū ʿUthmān al-Ḥīrī the ascetic (6).