Name: Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yazid ibn Warkashin ibn Barkiraz

Fame: Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Balkhi

Kuniya: Abu Abdullah

Lineage: al-Balkhi, al-Samari, al-Salami

Occupation: Indigo Dyer

Rank: Weak in Hadith

Mawla: Mawla of Banu Hashim

Lived in: Damascus, Sur Man Ra'a

Abu Ahmad ibn Adi al-Jurjani: Weak, he narrated strange things, plagiarized hadith, and was not from the people of hadith