al-Ḥimṣī; as well as Yūsuf ibn Saʿīd ibn Muslim, Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, and others of similar standing.
Those who narrated from him include: ʿUthmān ibn Khurrādhādh—one of his own teachers—Abū Sulaymān ibn Zabr, Abū Bakr al-Rabaʿī, Abū Aḥmad ibn ʿAdī, al-Mayānajī, Ibn al-Muqriʾ, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Ḥalabī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, and many others besides.
Ibn Mākūlā said, “He was a ḥāfiẓ.” ⦗1⦘
Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim remarked, “I found his memory to be sound.” ⦗2⦘
Hamzah al-Sahmī reports from al-Dāraquṭnī that he said, “He is weak.” ⦗3⦘
Bardaʿis passed away in 327 AH.
A group of scholars granted us authorization and related from al-Muʾayyad ibn al-Ukhuwwah. Saʿd ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Thaqafī and Manṣūr ibn al-Ḥusayn both said:
Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Barakah Abū Bakr—the ḥāfiẓ—narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Hāshim al-Anṭākī narrated to us; ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān narrated to us; Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū Burdah, from Abū Mūsā, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “No marriage is valid without a guardian.” ⦗4⦘