Al-Hujaymī retorted, “Rather, like a bull, for a dog has no horns.” The narrator continues: they were overjoyed to find his mind still sound.
Al-Hujaymī died at the end of the year 351 AH. It was also said that his grandfather’s name was ʿAbd al-Aʿlā.
In that same year passed away: Yaḥyā ibn Manṣūr the judge; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Mawt al-Makkī; ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Ward; the leading Ḥanafī and judge of the Two Sanctuaries, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī; Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jāmiʿ al-Miṣrī; and Maymūn ibn Isḥāq al-Hāshimī.
That year also saw ḥadith being transmitted by Abū Jaʿfar ibn Duḥaym al-Kūfī and Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād al-Naqqāsh.
303 – Ibn Qāniʿ, ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Qāniʿ al-Baghdādī*
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, accomplished scholar, and—God willing—trustworthy authority, the judge Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Qāniʿ ibn Marzūq ibn Wāthiq, a client of the Umayyads from Baghdad, and author of the Dictionary of the Companions (Muʿjam al-Ṣaḥābah), which we have heard.
He was born in 265 AH.