al-Naqqāsh and Ibn Abī Hāshim. He was trustworthy, well-established, and versatile. He died in 303 AH.
95 – Ibn Nājiya, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah b. Muḥammad al-Barbarī
The imam, ḥadīth master, and truthful narrator: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah b. Muḥammad b. Nājiya b. Najabah al-Barbarī, later of Baghdad.
He heard ḥadīth from Suwayd b. Saʿīd, Abū Maʿmar al-Hudhalī, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ghiyāth, ʿAbd al-Aʿlā b. Ḥammād al-Narsī, Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah, Bundār, and others of their rank.
He authored works and compiled collections.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī, Abū Bakr al-Jiʿābī, al-Ṭabarānī, Abū al-Qāsim Ibn al-Nakhkhās the Qur’an reciter, Isḥāq al-Niʿālī, Muḥammad b. al-Muẓaffar the ḥadīth master, Abū Ḥafṣ b. al-Zayyāt, and many more.
He was an imam, a decisive authority, and deeply versed in this discipline; he produced a large Musnad.
The ḥadīth scholar Abū ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-Barr said: “Khalaf b. al-Qāsim handed me the Musnad of Ibn Nājiya; it comprises 132 parts, narrated by him from Salm b. al-Faḍl on Ibn Nājiya’s authority.”