52 – Muḥammad ibn Ḥubbān ibn al-Azhar, Abū Bakr al-Baṣrī *
The musnid, long-lived ḥadith scholar: Abū Bakr al-ʿAbdī, al-Baṣrī, known as al-Qaṭṭān.
He related ḥadith from Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl, ʿAmr ibn Marzūq, and others.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī, Abū Bakr al-Jiʿābī, the judge Abū Ṭāhir al-Dhuhlī, Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī, ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Sabanka, as well as a number of other scholars who heard from him in Baghdad.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣūrī, the ḥāfiẓ, declared him weak; he had taken up residence in Baghdad.
Ibn Sabanka said, “The first item I wrote from Ibn Ḥubbān was in the year 300, and he died in 301.”
I say: To all appearances, he lived more than one hundred years.
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53 – Muḥammad ibn Ḥubbān ibn Bakr ibn ʿAmr al-Bāhilī al-Baṣrī **
A resident of al-Mukharrim, originally from Baghdad.
He transmitted ḥadith from Umayya ibn Bisṭām, Kathīr ibn Yaḥyā, Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥa, Muḥammad ibn al-Minhāl, and a number of others.
Abū ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, and others narrated on his authority.