88 – The Sufi Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Rāshid *
The shaykh, ḥadith scholar, trustworthy authority, and long-lived master: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Rāshid al-Baghdādī, the eminent Sufi—so styled to distinguish him from the younger Sufi Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn (1).
He was born around 210 AH.
In 227 AH he heard ḥadith from ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, al-Haytham ibn Khārija, Abū Naṣr al-Tammār, Aḥmad ibn Janāb, Suwayd ibn Saʿīd, and a number of others.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū al-Shaykh ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Ḥātim ibn Ḥibbān, Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī, Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zabībī, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn al-Zayyāt, Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, and ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Ḥarbī al-Sukkarī.
He died in the first decade of the century, in Rajab 306 AH, in Baghdad.
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb (2) and others declared him reliable; he was devoted to ḥadith and noted for precision.
He transmitted from Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn a collection that has reached us with a remarkably elevated isnād.
I read aloud to Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Qarāfī: Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ and al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Salām in Baghdad related to us, saying:
“Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar the judge told us, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzāz told us, ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Ḥarbī told us, in the year…”