the Damascene tutor.
He learned Qur’an recitation under Abū ʿUbaydah Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Dhakwān.
He also received ḥadith from Muḥammad b. Khuraym, Abū Shaybah Dāwūd b. Ibrāhīm, ʿAlī b. Aḥmad ʿAllān, Jaʿfar b. Aḥmad b. ʿĀṣim, al-Qāsim b. ʿĪsā al-ʿAṣṣār, Muḥammad b. al-Muʿāfā al-Ṣaydāwī, Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and many others in Syria, the Ḥijāz, and Egypt.
Among those who transmitted from him were Tammām al-Rāzī, Abū al-Ḥasan b. Jahḍam, ʿAlī b. Bushrā al-ʿAṭṭār, Makkī b. al-Ghamr, Muḥammad b. ʿAwf, and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Maydānī.
He was born in 286 AH and died in Ṣafar 364 AH. Al-Kattānī recorded these dates and said: “He compiled many works and was a reliable, trustworthy authority. Aḥmad b. Qāsim b. al-Khashshāb produced an elite selection from his narrations.”
110 – al-Quhanduzī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. Idrīs *
The venerable, long-lived shaykh, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. Idrīs b. Kāmil al-Quhanduzī, the senior transmitter of Herat.
He heard ḥadith from ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd al-Dārimī, Abū Muslim al-Kajji, and Yūsuf al-Qāḍī.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Aḥmad al-Muʿallim, Abū Manṣūr al-Dībājī, and several others.
Abū al-Naḍr al-Fāmī said: “He died in 364 AH.”