He used to say, “I travelled to Egypt with eighty thousand dirhams and spent every coin on eighty complete recitations (khatmas) of the Qur’an.”
Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī praised him in the strongest terms, declaring, “He was the imam of his age in the Warsh reading.”
I (the author) add: he died in Baghdad in 296 AH.
40 – Al-Murrī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd
The imam, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd ibn Saʿd al-Murrī, a Damascene Qur’an reciter.
He transmitted hadith from Abū Mushir al-Ghassānī, Abū al-Yamān, Ādam ibn Abī Iyās, Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, and a number of others.
Those who reported from him include Abū ʿAlī ibn Ādam, Ibn Abī al-ʿAqib, Abū Aḥmad ibn al-Nāṣiḥ, al-Ṭabarānī, Abū ʿUmar ibn Faḍālah, and others.
He died in 297 AH, a date recorded by Ibn Zabr.
41 – Abū al-Ādhān ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baghdādī
The ḥāfiẓ, meticulous scholar, and exemplar: Abū al-Ādhān ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baghdādī.