66 – al-Bardiji, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Hārūn ibn Rūḥ (1)
The imām, ḥadith master, and unimpeachable authority Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Hārūn ibn Rūḥ al-Bardiji—also known as al-Barḍaʿī—was a resident of Baghdad.
He was born a little after 230 AH, or perhaps shortly before.
He transmitted hadith from Abū Saʿīd al-Ashaj, Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Jahḍamī, al-Faḍl al-Rukhāmī, ʿAlī ibn Ishkāb, Hārūn ibn Isḥāq, Baḥr ibn Naṣr al-Khawlānī, al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān, Sulaymān ibn Sayf al-Ḥarrānī, al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Bayrūtī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Daqīqī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, and others of their generation in Syria, the Two Holy Cities, Persia, Egypt, Iraq, and Upper Mesopotamia.
He collected and authored works, and he excelled in the science of transmitted reports.
Those who narrated from him include Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Ṣawwāf, Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl, Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, ʿAlī ibn Luʾluʾ al-Warrāq, and others.
Al-Ḥākim mentioned him in his History, saying: “He came to Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī, both benefiting and imparting benefit; our shaykhs of that time wrote hadith from him, and I have read this in the handwriting of Abū ʿAmr …”