Muḥammad b. ʿAbdülbāqī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdurraḥmān b. Rabīʿ b. Sābit b. Wahb b. Masʿadja b. Ḥāris b. ʿAbdullāh b. Kaʿb b. Mālik al-Anṣārī. He listened to ḥadīth. He transmitted narrations individually from a group of ḥadīth scholars. He had ḥadīth written down at the Kasr Mosque. He was well-versed in many sciences. At a young age, he was captured by the Romans. Although they tried to force him to pronounce the word kufr (disbelief), they did not succeed. He himself learned to write in Greek from the Romans. He used to say, "Pulpits serve those who serve the scholars." Ibn al-Jawzī transmitted the following poems of his:
"Hold your tongue. Even if asked, do not say three things:
Your age, your wealth, and your madhhab (legal school),
If you say these three things, you will encounter three troubles:
You will either be declared an unbeliever, envied, or contradicted."
"I have a destined time of death.
When the time is complete, I will die.
Even if roaring lions stubbornly attack,
They cannot harm me until death comes."
Ibn al-Jawzī said: "Muḥammad b. ʿAbdülbāqī reached the age of ninety-three without any change in his senses. He passed away on the second of the month of Rajab that year. Leading figures of the people and others attended his funeral. He was buried near the grave of Bishr al-Ḥāfī."