He died in Córdoba in Jumādā I, 340 AH, having reached his nineties.
267 – al-Baghdādī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq*
The shaykh, traditionist, and reliable authority, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baghdādī.
He travelled in search of knowledge and heard ḥadith from: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Maryam; Yūsuf ibn Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Khālid; Abū Ḥāritha Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghassānī; Miqdām ibn Dāwūd al-Ruʿaynī; and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include: the judge ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Ḥalabī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mandah, Munīr ibn Aḥmad, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Dimyāṭī and his father, and many others.
The trustworthy Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us, saying: Muḥammad ibn ʿImād informed us; Ibn Rifāʿah informed us; al-Khilaʿī informed us; Munīr ibn Aḥmad related to us in 412 AH, saying: ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad narrated to us in 339 AH, saying: Miqdām ibn Dāwūd ibn ʿĪsā ibn Talīd narrated to us in 276 AH, saying: Asad ibn Mūsā narrated to us; Shuʿbah narrated to us from Abū Jamrah, who said: I heard Zahdam ibn Muḍarrib (1) say, “I heard ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn say:
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