Then the Chief of Chiefs said, “I have seen many of the matters for which Abū ʿUmar was reproached and suspected, yet they are written in the books of the leading authorities—especially in Gharīb al-Muṣannaf by Abū ʿUbayd, or so he said. (1)

Al-Khaṭīb said: I heard ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Barhān remark, “Among the early and later scholars alike, no one has spoken on the science of language more eloquently than Abū ʿUmar al-Zāhid.”

He added: He also composed a work entitled Gharīb al-Ḥadīth, based on the Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal. (2)

Al-Yashkurī composed a poem in praise of Abū ʿUmar; among its lines are:
Were I to swear an oath, I would not be lying—
no observer has ever seen a scholar his equal.
Whenever you think we have reached the limits of his knowledge,
it bursts forth until you say, “This is but its beginning.” (3)

Abū ʿUmar died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah, 345 AH.

289 – Ibn Najīḥ, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Baghdādī *
The ḥadith scholar and imam Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Najīḥ al-Baghdādī, the cloth-merchant.

He was born in 263 AH.

He received ḥadith from Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿfar, Abū Qilābah, Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj al-Azraq, Abū al-ʿAynāʾ, and several others.