ʿAlī ibn Abī Hurayrah authored al-Muḥarrar fī al-Naẓar—the very first book devoted exclusively to unadorned juristic disagreement. He also produced al-Ifṣāḥ on the Shāfiʿī school, compiled treatises on dialectics, lectured in Baghdad after his teacher Abū ʿAlī, and died in the year 350 AH while still in the prime of life.

44 – al-Anbārī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad*

The shaykh, long-lived authority and musnid of Baghdad, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Aḥmad al-Bundār—his full name is Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Haytham ibn ʿImrān al-Anbārī.

Ibn Khalīl obtained from him two well-known fascicles containing hadiths with elevated chains.

He was born in Shawwāl of 267 AH.

In his youth he heard hadith from Aḥmad ibn al-Khalīl al-Burjulānī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-ʿAwwām al-Rayāḥī, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Shākir aṣ-Ṣāʾigh, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl at-Tirmidhī, and a group of others, and he was the last remaining narrator from all of them.

Those who transmitted from him include Ibn Sumaykah, Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ, Abū Bakr al-Barqānī, Ibn Dāwūd ar-Razzāz, Muḥammad ibn Abī Isḥāq al-Muzakkī, Bushrā ibn Masīs al-Fātinī, and many others.

Al-Khaṭīb said: “I asked al-Barqānī about him and he replied, ‘His audition is sound, written down in his father’s own hand.’” Ibn Abī al-Fawāris said: “ʿUmar… (continues)