He also narrated from ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd and from al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAmr al-Kashshī, a companion of Ibn Abī Fudayk, although he was suspected regarding that.
Al-Ḥākim transmitted from him and then declared him a liar (1).
Al-Ḥākim said, “He dictated to us from his own notebook and stated that he was one hundred and eight years old.” Al-Ḥākim wrote from him in Rajab of the year 339 AH.
204 – al-Miṣrī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad *
The imam, ḥadith scholar, and traveller Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī, the preacher, was famous as “al-Miṣrī” because he lived for a time in Egypt.
He heard ḥadiths from Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Abū ʿAṣīda, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Abī al-ʿAwwām al-Riyāḥī, and their peers.
While in Egypt he studied under Rūḥ ibn al-Faraj al-Qaṭṭān, Abū Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Maryam, and their circle; he collected and compiled material (2).
Those who narrated from him include Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Muẓaffar, al-Dāraqutnī, Ibn Shāhīn, Muḥammad ibn Fāris al-Ghūrī, Hilāl al-Ḥaffār, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Razqawayh, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān, and others.
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb said, “He was trustworthy and knowledgeable; he gathered the ḥadiths of Layth and of Ibn Luhayʿa.
He authored many books on asceticism,
and he conducted a public preaching session (3)."