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Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī

أبو بكر أحمد بن علي الرازي

Baghdad teaching leader and student of al-Karkhī who refused the chief judgeship; born305, died370.

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وممن أخذ عنهما جميعا هشام بن عبيد الله الرازي غير أنه لين في الرواية وفي منزله مات محمد بن الحسن بالري ودفن في مقبرتهم سمعت الشيخ أبا بكر محمد بن موسى رحمه الله يذكر عن الشيخ أبي بكر الرازي أنه كان يكره أن يقرأ عليه الأصول من رواية هشام لما فيه من الاضطراب فكان يأمر أن يقرأ الأصول من رواية أبي سليمان أو رواية محمد بن سماعة لصحة ذلك وضبطهما

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Among those who learned from both of them was Hishām ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Rāzī, although he was weak in transmission. Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan died in his house in Rayy and was buried in their cemetery. I heard Shaykh Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Mūsā, God have mercy on him, report of Shaykh Abū Bakr al-Rāzī that he disliked having the Uṣūl read to him through Hishām's transmission because of its inconsistencies. He would direct that the Uṣūl be read through Abū Sulaymān's or Muḥammad ibn Samāʿa's transmission because of their soundness and the two men's precision.

Sources: Al-Afghānī · p. 162 / Baktāsh · p. 267

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