and al-Maṭīrī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Hurayrah, Ḥamzah ibn al-Qāsim al-Hāshimī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Mahruwayh al-Qazwīnī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ al-Simsār, the ascetic.
143 – Al-Athram, Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad*
The imam, Qurʾān-reciter, and hadith scholar: Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥammād ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baghdādī, known as al-Athram (1). This is the lineage recorded for him by several authorities.
He heard narrations from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah, Ḥumayd ibn al-Rabīʿ, Bishr ibn Maṭar, ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb, al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Tarqafī, and others.
ʿUmar al-Baṣrī, the ḥāfiẓ, selected traditions from him.
Those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Muẓaffar, al-Dāraquṭnī, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Kattānī, Ibn Jumayʿ, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī, ʿAlī ibn al-Qāsim al-Najjād, Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī, and many others.
He settled in Basra, and people carried his narrations from him.
He was born in Sāmarrāʾ in 240 AH and died in Basra in 336 AH.
I came across one of his reports in al-Ṣaydāwī’s Muʿjam.
Musallam ibn Muḥammad and a group granted us permission to relate it, saying: “Abū al-Yaman informed us …”