ʿAmmār; Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī al-Daqqāq, the ḥadith master; al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣadaqah, the specialist in the laws of inheritance, nicknamed al-Azraq; Zakariyyā ibn Aḥmad al-Balkhī, judge of Damascus; Abū Hāshim ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Salāmah al-Ḥimṣī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūnus al-Qabrī, a companion of Baqī ibn Makhlad; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Aḥmad al-Zayyāt, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Baghdādī; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd, the ḥadith master al-Bazzāz; the emir Muḥammad ibn Rāʾiq; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ayman al-Qurṭubī; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Jūrjīrī; Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Harawī; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Lubābah al-Qurṭubī; and Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Dimashqī, the devout worshipper—his given name was Mufliḥ.
128 – al-Hizzānī, Abū Rawq Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Bakr
He was the senior musnid of Basra, trustworthy and long-lived: Abū Rawq Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Bakr al-Hizzānī, the Basran.⦗1⦘
He began hearing ḥadith in 247 AH and thereafter from ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī al-Fallas; Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Busrī; Muḥammad ibn al-Nuʿmān ibn Shibl al-Bāhilī—the weak narrator who transmitted from Mālik; Maymūn ibn Mihrān; Aḥmad ibn Rūḥ; and a number of others.
Among those who narrated from him were his nephew Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Bakr al-Hizzānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jundī, Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ, and Abū