= Al-Hadith, one of the companions of Imam Malik, was born in 125 AH (742–743 CE) and died in 197 AH (812–813 CE). His works include al-Jami‘ fi al-Hadith, published in Cairo in 1942 CE. Fuad Sezgin notes: “It also appears under the title Musnad in the Dhahiriyya collection, number 40 (folios 106a–171b; fifth century AH).” See: Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-A‘yan, 3:36–37; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Hafiz, 2:304; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-I‘tidal, 2:521; Ibn ‘Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 1:347–348; al-Zarkali, al-A‘lam, 4:289; Kaḥḥāla, Mu‘jam al-Mu’allifin, 6:162; Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Literatur, 3:155; Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (Fiqh section), 1/3:144. (1) Abu Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Mani‘ ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Baghawi al-Baghdadi al-Asam, al-Hafiz al-Ḥujjah, author of a Musnad. He was born in 160 AH (776 CE) and died in 244 AH (858 CE). I have not consulted this Musnad; its supplementary hadiths were printed in al-Matālib al-‘Āliya fī Zawā’id al-Masānīd al-Thamāniya by Ibn Hajar, and among the munāqashat al-ṣifāt (hadiths of the divine attributes) is vol. 3:100, no. 2993. He is not mentioned by Brockelmann or Sezgin in their Geschichte der arabischen Literatur and Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums. See: Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 2:481; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 1:84; Ibn ‘Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 20:105; Hajji Khalifa, Kashf al-Ẓunūn, 2:1685; al-Kuttani, al-Risālah al-Mustarṭafah, p. 49; al-Zarkali, al-A‘lam, 1:245; Kaḥḥāla, Mu‘jam al-Mu’allifin, 2:184. (2) Abu al-Ḥasan Musaddad ibn Masruhd ibn Masrabl al-Asadi al-Basri, al-Muhaddith al-Hafiz, said to have been the first to compile a Musnad in Basra. He died in 228 AH (842–843 CE).