He transmitted ḥadith from Abū Umayya al-Tarsūsī, Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, and ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. He recited the Qur’an to Hārūn al-Akhfash, Qunbul, ʿUthmān ibn Khurrādhādh, Isḥāq al-Khuzāʿī, and several others. His own teacher, ʿUthmān, had in turn recited to Qālūn (1). He also authored a treatise on the eight canonical readings (2).

Among those who studied Qur’an recitation with him were Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, ʿAlī ibn Bishr of Antioch, ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Ghalbūn, Abū ʿAlī ibn Ḥabash, and a number of others. Those who narrated from him include Abū Aḥmad al-Dahhān, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Jumayʿ, and a group besides them.

Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī said, “He was a precise Qur’an reader—trustworthy and reliable.” ʿAlī ibn Bishr added, “Our shaykh passed away in Shaʿbān, 339 AH.”

208 – Ibn al-Bakhtarī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Baghdādī
The ḥadith authority of Iraq, the trusted scholar, the imam, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Bakhtarī ibn Mudrik al-Baghdādī, the grain-seller (3).