heard ḥadīth in the year 290 AH and thereafter from Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muṭayyin, Abū Ḥaṣīn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Wādiʿī, the exegete Aḥmad ibn Faraḥ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Baḥr, and others.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid ibn Muḥammad; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAlawī; Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Fadawayh; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥamzah al-Sukkarī; Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad ibn Bayān al-Dahhān; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAlī al-ʿIjlī the cobbler; Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Bakrī; his brother Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad; Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bākawayh al-Shīrāzī; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Kharja al-Nahāwandī; and others besides them.
Ibn Kharja said: “Our shaykh al-Bakkāʾī died on the thirteenth of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 376 AH, at the age of ninety-nine.”
I (the author) add: In that same year the ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Hārūn al-Baradhaʿī—who narrated in Damascus from Ibn Abī Dāwūd—also passed away, as did the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Jarrāḥ, aged eighty-five, who had met al-Baghawī; the ḥāfiẓ Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mustamlī al-Balkhī; Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥasan ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Waḍḍāḥ al-Simsār al-Ḥurafī; the Qur’an-reciter Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn al-Bawwāb; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Maṭraf al-Jarrāḥī, the judge; Abū al-Qāsim ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Sabanak al-Bajalī; Qassām al-Ḥārithī al-Jabalī, nicknamed al-Tarrāb, who exercised authority over Damascus; Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān al-Ḥīrī; Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥalabī al-Umawī, their client in al-Andalus, who transmitted from Abū ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī; and the preacher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd—