al-Baghandi al-Kabir
- Died
- 283 AH
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Abu Bakr al-Baghandi, known as al-Baghandi al-Kabir (d. 283 AH / 896 CE), was a hadith transmitter originally from Wasit who settled and taught in Baghdad .
Lineage and Teachers
His full name was Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn al-Harith ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Azdi al-Wasiti . He was distinguished as "the Elder" (al-Kabir) from his son, the prominent hadith master Ibn al-Baghandi (Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Sulayman) . He studied and transmitted hadith from several major scholars, including Abu Nu'aym al-Fadl ibn Dukayn, Ubayd Allah ibn Musa, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Ansari, Qabisa ibn Uqba, Abu al-Walid al-Tayalisi, and Abu Asim .
Students and Teaching
Al-Baghandi taught in Baghdad, where notable traditionalists received narrations from him . Abu Ja'far al-Arzanani reported seeing Abu Dawud al-Sijistani kneeling before al-Baghandi to ask him about hadith . His students included his son Muhammad, al-Qadi al-Mahamili, Abu Amr ibn al-Sammak, Ismail ibn Muhammad al-Saffar, Ahmad ibn Salman al-Najad, and Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Shafi'i .
Scholarly Assessment
Opinions on al-Baghandi's reliability differed among biographers and critics. Ibn Hibban listed him among trustworthy transmitters in al-Thiqat, and Maslama ibn Qasim described him as an authoritative and reliable narrator (thiqah thabt) . By contrast, Abu al-Fath ibn Abi al-Fawaris deemed him weak in hadith (da'if al-hadith), and differing evaluations were transmitted from al-Daraqutni, who considered him acceptable (la ba'sa bih) in one report and weak in another . Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi defended his transmission, remarking that although he was cited as weak, the grounds for that weakness were unclear, as all of his narrations were sound (mustaqimah) and free of objectionable material (munkar) . Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Abi al-Tayyib al-Mu'addib reported that both al-Baghandi and his son had referred to each other as a liar .
Death
Al-Baghandi died on a Monday night with fourteen nights remaining in Dhu al-Hijjah 283 AH (896 CE) and was buried the following afternoon after the noon prayer; Ibn al-Munadi remarked that before his death he had been "alive like a dead man" . Ahmad ibn Kamil al-Qadi reported an alternative death year of 284 AH, though 283 AH was deemed more accurate . Al-Dhahabi stated that he was around seventy years old at the time of his death .
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List of Works
Amali al-Baghandi is a hadith collection belonging to the amali genre, recording dictation sessions in which prophetic traditions and their accompanying chains of transmission were recited to students.