- Hamzah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Kinānī—the Imām, ḥadith master, exemplar, and chief muḥaddith of the Egyptian lands; Abū al-Qāsim al-Kinānī al-Miṣrī, host of the “Majlis al-Biṭāqah” (1).
He was born in 275 AH.
He received ḥadith from ʿImrān ibn Mūsā al-Ṭabīb, Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Sarrāj, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nasāʾī, al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ṣayqal, Saʿīd ibn ʿUthmān al-Ḥarrānī, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Manjanīqī, Dāwūd ibn Shaybah, ʿAbdān al-Ahwāzī, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muʿāfā al-Ṣaydāwī, Jumāhir ibn Muḥammad al-Zamlakānī, and Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī, whom he caught up with in Basra.
He gathered and authored works; he was precise and capable, a man of reverence and devoted worship.
Among those who narrated from him were al-Dāraquṭnī, Ibn Mandah, ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd, Tammām ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī, Shuʿayb ibn al-Minhāl, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Naṣr, ʿAlī ibn Ḥimṣah al-Ḥarrānī, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Naḥḥās, Aḥmad ibn Fath al-Qurṭubī (Ibn al-Rassān), Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mushkyālī al-Ṭulayṭilī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qābisī, and many others.