Volume Sixteen
1 – Ibn Saʿd, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad al-Naysābūrī *
The Imām, hadith master, and erudite scholar Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿd al-Naysābūrī, surnamed al-Ḥājjī and known as al-Bazzāz (the cloth-merchant).
Al-Ḥākim transmitted from him and said that he had heard from Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Būshanjī, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib, Aḥmad ibn al-Naḍr, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, and their peers.
He later collected reports from four additional tiers of authorities, wrote copiously, and compiled the names of teachers, subject headings, and select anecdotes.
He never journeyed in search of hadith. I once asked him about ʿAbd Allah ibn Shīrawayh, and he replied, “Reliable, trustworthy …,” until he concluded:
Abū Muḥammad died suddenly in 349 AH, in his early eighties.
Al-Sharaf Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allah ibn Tāj al-Umana told us; ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad told us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Mustamlī told us; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn, the hadith master, told us; Abū ʿAbd Allah, the hadith master, related to me: ʿAbd Allah ibn Saʿd