saying, “People keep repeating, ‘Abū Zurʿa and Abū Ḥātim are unrivalled in memorization!’ By Allah, I have never seen anyone with a better memory than Qirṭima!”
Al-Khaṭīb (1) said: He passed away in 290 AH.
43 – Ibn Ṣadaqa, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, master of precision, and jurist: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣadaqa al-Baghdādī.
He narrated from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal a collection of legal questions, and from Ismāʿīl ibn Masʿūd al-Jahdarī, Muḥammad ibn Miskīn al-Yamāmī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb al-Nashāstajī, Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Qāniʿ, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Sulaymān al-Ṭabarānī, the jurist Abū Bakr al-Khallāl, and Abū Bakr ibn Mujāhid.
He was known for carefully copying books on the variant Qurʾanic readings and for recording the related legal questions from Imam Aḥmad; he was renowned for accuracy and meticulous verification.
He died in 293 AH.
Ibn Qudāma informed us; ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad informed us; Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn informed us; Ibn ʿAllān informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadaqa, the ḥāfiẓ, related to me, saying: “Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us; he said: ‘My father related to us, from ʿUthmān ibn…’”