and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ṭubayz, Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn al-Simsār, and others besides them.
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī said: “He was trustworthy, a hadith master, and of noble standing.”
He died on the Day of Sacrifice in 355 AH.
I (the author) said: I have cited one of his narrations in Tabaqāt al-Ḥuffāẓ (1).
8 – Ibn Abī Hāshim, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿUmar al-Baghdādī
Leader of the Qur’an reciters, Abū Ṭāhir ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Hāshim al-Baghdādī, author of Jāmiʿ al-Bayān.
He transmitted from Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Qattāt, Aḥmad ibn Faraḥ, Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-Khuzāʿī, ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ṣaqr al-Sukkarī, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥubāb, and Aḥmad ibn Sahl al-Ushnānī. He also recited the Qur’an before them and before Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Ḍarīr and Abū Bakr ibn Mujāhid.
Those who read to him include Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Jaʿfar al-Fārisī, and ʿAlī ibn—
(1) Al-Dhahabi records in Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, vol. 3, pp. 924-925: “Yahya b. Ahmad al-Judhami and Muhammad b. al-Husayn al-Mu‘addil informed us; they were told by Muhammad b. ‘Imad, who was told by ‘Abd Allah b. Rufa‘a, who was told by ‘Ali b. al-Hasan, who was told by Abu al-‘Abbas Ahmad b. Muhammad b. al-Hajj, who was told by ‘Ali b. al-Hasan b. ‘Allan, who was told by Abu Ya‘la Ahmad b. ‘Ali, who was told by Ghassan b. al-Rabi‘, from ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Thabit b. Thawban, from al-Hasan b. al-Hurr, from al-Qasim b. Mukhaimara, who said: ‘Alqama took my hand, Ibn Mas‘ud took ‘Alqama’s hand, and the Prophet (peace be upon him) took Ibn Mas‘ud’s hand while teaching the tashahhud: “al-tahiyyat lillah …” up to the words “his servant and messenger.”
Other sources: al-Khatib, Tarikh Baghdad, 11/7-8; Ibn Hajar, Inbaʾ al-Ruwat, 2/215; al-Dhahabi, Tabaqat al-Qurraʾ, 1/251-252; al-Dhahabi, al-‘Ibar, 2/282; Talkhis Ibn Maktum, p. 122; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 11/237; Ibn al-Jazari, Ghaya al-Nihaya, 1/475-477; Ibn al-Jazari, al-Nashr fi al-Qiraʾat al-‘Ashr, 1/123; Ibn Taghribirdi, al-Nujum al-Zahira, 3/325; al-Suyuti, Bughyat al-Wu‘at, 2/121; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2/380.