and the Damascene; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Abī al-ʿAqab; and Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥakam al-Wāsiṭī.
- al-Jiʿābī — Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Salm
The ḥāfiẓ, accomplished authority, and erudite scholar, judge of Mosul: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Salm al-Tamīmī al-Baghdādī, known as al-Jiʿābī.
He was born in Ṣafar of the year 284 AH.
He heard ḥadīths from Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Marwazī, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb the judge, Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanāʾī, Abū Khalīfah al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥabbāb, Muḥammad ibn Ḥubbān ibn al-Azhar, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Samāʿah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Firyābī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nājiyah, Abū Bakr al-Bāghandī, Qāsim al-Muṭarriz, and their peers.
He studied under the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿUqdah, excelled in memorization, and reached its highest pinnacle.
Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāraquṭnī, Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Shāhīn, Ibn Razqawayh, Ibn Mandah, al-Ḥākim, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān, the judge Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī of Basra, and—last of them to pass away—the ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym, who took from him when he visited them in Isfahān.