Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥusayn ibn Jumayʿ al-Ṣaydāwī; ʿAlī ibn al-Qāsim al-Shāhid— a shaykh for whom al-Khaṭīb undertook the journey— and others. Ibn al-Muqriʾ documents that he heard from him in Shaʿbān of the year 332 AH (1).
A report of his has reached me with an elevated chain in the Muʿjam of Ibn Jumayʿ, and I have reproduced it in the Life of Mālik. Some people placed his death in 331 AH, but they were in error.
129 – Ibn ʿUbayd, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-Baghdādī *
The ḥāfiẓ, the imām, the reliable authority: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥisāb al-Baghdādī, the cloth-merchant (2).
He heard ḥadith from ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥunaynī, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ṭālib, Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿArzah, and several others.
Transmitting from him are al-Dāraqutnī, Ibn Jumayʿ, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Mutayyam, and a number of others.
Al-Khaṭīb said: “He was trustworthy, a ḥāfiẓ, and well-versed” (3).
He died in 330 AH at the age of seventy-eight.
ʿUmar ibn al-Qawwās informed us; Ibn al-Harrastānī informed us; Jamāl al-Islām informed us; Ibn Ṭalāb informed us; Ibn Jumayʿ informed us: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us in Baghdad; ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Azhar al-Sammān narrated to us from Ibn ʿAwn, from