the Azdī of Mosul, author of History of Mosul (1) and its judge.
He heard ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Muthannā, ʿUbayd ibn Ghannām, Isḥāq ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarbī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Muṭṭaynan, and their peers.
He was also known as Ibn Zakrah.
Among those who transmitted from him were Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Jumayʿ, Naṣr ibn Abī Naṣr al-ʿAṭṭār, and others.
He died shortly after 334 AH.
A number of his narrations have reached me in the Muʿjam of Ibn Jumayʿ.

210 – al-Shaʿrānī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh ibn Fahd
The itinerant scholar and ḥadith specialist, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh ibn Fahd al-Nahāwandī, later al-Hamadhānī al-Shaʿrānī, author of the compendium of transmission routes for the ḥadith, “Whoever lies about me deliberately….”
He narrated from al-Kudaymī, Ibrāhīm ibn Dayzil, Tamṭam, Aḥmad al-Ḥammār, al-Kajji, Ḥamdān ibn al-Mughīrah al-Hamadhānī, Muṭayyan, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, al-Firyābī, and many others.
Narrators who reported from him include Abū Bakr ibn Lāl, Manṣūr ibn Jaʿfar al-Nahāwandī, and others besides them.
He is weak, and he made a number of mistakes.