Those who narrated from him included al-Barqānī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Azajī, Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl, Abū al-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī, Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī, al-Ḥasan ibn Ghālib the Qurʾān-reciter, and a group of others; the last of them to pass away was Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima.

Al-Khaṭīb said, “He was reliable.” (1)

Al-ʿAtiqī reported: “I heard Abū al-Faḍl al-Zuhrī say, ‘I attended the session of al-Firyābī, in which there were ten thousand people; none of them is still alive except me,’ and he began to weep.” (2)

Al-Azajī (3) said, “He is a shaykh, trustworthy, and his supplications are answered.”

Al-Dāraqutnī said, “Trustworthy, an author, and every one of his forefathers transmitted ḥadith.” (4)

Al-Zuhrī died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal—others say in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir—of the year 381 AH.

Through his chain we heard Ṣifat al-Munāfiq (The Description of the Hypocrite) by al-Firyābī.

He was the grandfather of the Jerusalem preacher Qutb al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn al-Ḥasan, the son of the man whose biography is under discussion.

I read to Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq the Qurʾān-reciter; al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd Allah the copyist conveyed this to you in Jumādā al-Ākhira of the year 620 AH, and Abū—