153 – al-ʿAkari
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Bishr ibn Baṭrīq
The ḥadith scholar Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Bishr ibn Baṭrīq az-Zubayrī, al-ʿAkari, the Egyptian.

He narrated from Bahr ibn Naṣr al-Khawlānī, al-Rabīʿ al-Murādī, Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, Bakkār ibn Qutaybah, Abū Umayyah al-Ṭarsūsī, Ibrāhīm ibn Marzūq, and many others.

He held dictation sessions in the congregational mosque of Fusṭāṭ.

Among those who transmitted from him were Ibn al-Muqriʾ, Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad al-Faqīh, and others.

He was born in Sāmarrāʾ in 248 AH and settled in Egypt while still a youth.

Ibn Yūnus said: “He was the client (mawlā) of ʿAtīq ibn Maslama ibn ʿAtīq ibn ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām.”

He died in Shawwāl 332 AH.

Ibn Nuqṭa recorded his name as al-Zanbarī—with the nūn pronounced quiescent—and thereby erred.

Ibn Yūnus also said: “Someone who knew Baṭrīq informed me that he was a Byzantine physician who accepted Islam at the hands of ʿAtīq ibn Maslama.”

I say: A number of scholars have written his name with a nūn; perhaps he was affiliated with the Zanbar clan by alliance, or he took up residence among them. ⦗1⦘

Some of his high-chain transmissions (ʿawālī) have reached me in the fifteenth volume of al-Khilʿiyyāt. ⦗2⦘