and thirty-one and three hundred (331 AH) in Córdoba, having lived eighty-three years and some months. (1)

247 – al-Khuttalī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh
The Imām and eminent ḥāfiẓ, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, known as Ibn al-Khuttalī. (2)

He heard ḥadith from his father, from Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, Abū Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī, Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq the judge, and others of that tier.

Those who transmitted from him include Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Thallāj, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāraquṭnī, the judge Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī, and many others.

Al-Dāraquṭnī said, “He used to engage in scholarly discussion, compose works, and devote himself to memorization.” (3)

Al-Khaṭīb stated, “He had memorized fifty thousand ḥadith, dictated them from memory, and was intelligent, well-versed, reliable, and a ḥāfiẓ. He took up residence in Basra.” (4)

Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī reported: My father told me, “Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Khuttalī came to us in Basra. He was a stalwart scholar of ḥadith, renowned for his prodigious memory. He arrived without any of his books and continued teaching for months until his books caught up with him. I heard him say:”