He also transmitted ḥadith in Damascus and in ʿAsqalan.
Ibn Mākūlā said, “He authored many works and was one of the eminent, reliable authorities.”
Al-Khaṭīb remarked, “His reports were sound and his compilations attractive.” ⦗1⦘
It is said that he died in Yāfā (Jaffa) in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 327 AH.
116 – Ibn al-Bāghandī, Abū Dharr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad *
The ḥāfiẓ, son of a ḥāfiẓ, grandson of a ḥāfiẓ: the meticulous imām Abū Dharr Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn al-Bāghandī.
He heard ḥadith from ʿUmar ibn Shabbah, Saʿdān ibn Naṣr, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ishkāb, and their contemporaries.
Narrators from him include al-Dāraqutnī, al-Muʿaffā al-Nahrawānī ⦗2⦘, and ʿUmar ibn Shāhīn; they considered him superior to his father ⦗3⦘.
He passed away in 326 AH.
117 – Abū al-Dahdāḥ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tamīmī **
The shaykh, imām, traditionist, and trustworthy transmitter: Abū al-Dahdāḥ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn