Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Baqī b. Makhlad b. Yazīd (201-76/817-89) was a Córdoban traditionist and pioneer in the introduction of the study of ḥadīth in al-Andalus. He was a descendant of the mawlā (client) of a woman from Jaén (Jayyān), and the sources emphasise that he made no attempt to invent a more prestigious genealogy. He travelled to the Mashriq twice, where he completed the studies that he had begun in Córdoba. His first riḥla (journey) lasted about twenty years and his second fourteen. The extensive