In that same year there also passed away: Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Kūdhak; and Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Marwān al-Qurashī—both of them in Damascus; al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Kaysān, the grammarian, in Baghdad; Zayd ibn Abī Bilāl, the Qurʾān-reciter; and Muḥammad ibn ʿAdī the soap-maker, in Sijistān.

50 – Ibn Khallād, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Naṣībī

The shaykh, truthful and trustworthy, a ḥadith scholar, and the principal musnid (senior transmitter) of Iraq: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Khallād ibn Manṣūr al-Naṣībī, later of Baghdad, the spice-dealer.

He heard ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj al-Azraq; al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah—whose narrations from him are the most numerous; Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Kudaymī; Muḥammad ibn Ghālib al-Tamṭām; Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī; and several others, and he alone transmitted from each of them.

Those who narrated from him include al-Dāraquṭnī, Ibn Razqawayh, Hilāl al-Ḥaffār, Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Razmah, Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ, and others.

Al-Khaṭīb said: “He knew nothing of the science, though his audition was sound. He once asked Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāraquṭnī, ‘Which is larger, the ṣāʿ or the mudd?’ So al-Dāraquṭnī turned to the students and said, ‘Look at your shaykh.’ (1)

Abū Nuʿaym said: ‘He was reliable.’ (2)

The same verdict was given by Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Fawāris, who added: ‘He knew nothing of ḥadith.’ (3)