Narrated from him were al-Dāraqutnī, al-Ḥākim, Ibn Razqawayh, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān, his brother ʿAbd al-Malik, and others.
Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Fawāris said: “He was the first shaykh from whom I heard.”
I (the author) say: He was born in the year 263 AH, and he died in Ṣafar 347 AH.
The third fascicle of his collected narrations has reached me; he is the earliest shaykh for ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Bishrān.
292 – al-ʿAqabī, Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Baghdādī *
The shaykh, scholar, and reliable narrator, Abū Aḥmad Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Baghdādī, known as al-ʿAqabī and titled the dihqān (village headman). He lived in al-ʿAqabah, the quarter near the Tigris.
He heard hadith from Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Ḥayyān, al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad al-Dūrī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, ʿAbd al-Karīm al-DayrʿĀqūlī, and a group of others.
Those who narrated from him include al-Ḥākim, Ibn Razqawayh, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān, Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥurfī, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Bishrān, and others.
He was regarded as trustworthy (1).
He died in 347 AH.