أبو بكر النيسابوري عبد الله بن محمد بن زياد

أبو بكر النيسابوري عبد الله بن محمد بن زياد

تقریباً 852 عیسوی · 238 ھ – تقریباً 936 عیسوی · 324 ھ

Abu Bakr Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad ibn Wasil ibn Maymun al-Naysaburi, a client (mawla) of Aban ibn Uthman ibn Affan, who settled in Baghdad. He was born in 238 and died in 324 ¹. He was an ascetic who did not sleep at night for forty years, and who performed the dawn prayer with the ablution he had made for the night prayer; he combined fiqh and hadith, and he wrote additions to al-Muzani's book ¹. al-Daraqutni said: 'I have not seen anyone with a better memory than him' ¹. al-Shirazi relates an account of a session in Baghdad at which a man asked about the word 'wa-turbatuha' in the hadith about the earth being made a mosque; none of those present had an answer until Abu Bakr was asked, and he recited the hadith from memory ¹–².