al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr; Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Ḥājj; and a number of others, the last of them to pass away being Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Simsār.
He composed poetry and enjoyed a recognized standing of merit.
He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 353 AH, at the age of ninety-two.
- Ibn al-Ward ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī *
The reliable Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ward ibn Zanjawayh al-Baghdādī, later of Egypt, known for transmitting the Prophet’s biography.
He reported ḥadith from: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Barqī; Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb al-ʿAllāf; Yūsuf ibn Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Khālid; and several others.
Those who narrated from him include: Ibn Mandah; Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās; Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd the jurist; Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Naẓīf; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Ghāzī; and others.
He died on the eighth of Ramaḍān, 351 AH, according to Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṭaḥḥān.
- The Shāfiʿī Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbduwayh **
An imam and a meticulous ḥadith scholar,