al-Hazimi

Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Musa b. 'Uthman al-Hazimi of Hamadhan, surnamed Zayn al-Din; among the exact hafizes and righteous worshippers — he heard at Hamadhan from 'Abd al-Awwal b. 'Isa al-Sijzi, Abu Mansur Shahrdar al-Daylami and Ibn al-Muqri', read fiqh at Baghdad under Wathiq b. Fadhlan, then journeyed seeking hadith through Iraq, Syria, Mosul, Fars, Isfahan and much of Azerbaijan. ¹

Among his books: al-Nasikh wa'l-mansukh in hadith; al-Faysal on the difficulty of nasab; al-'Ajala on genealogy; Ma ittafaqa lafzuhu wa-iftaraqa musammahu on places and towns confusable in script; Silsilat al-dhahab; and Shurut al-a'imma. He settled at Baghdad's East Side. ¹