and Bahzād, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ward, Abū al-Ṭāhir al-Khāmī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Maṭar, Muʾammal ibn Yaḥyā, Abū al-Qāsim al-ʿUthmānī, and a number of others.

Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Fahd, his son, and Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Nafīs, the Qurʾān-reciter.

He authored The Musnad of the Muwaṭṭaʾ, discussing its hidden defects, the variant wordings, clarification of its vocabulary, biographical notices of its transmitters, and a register of Mālik’s teachers, producing a finely crafted work. Jaʿfar al-Hamdānī used to relate it from al-ʿUthmānī, from both al-Ḥaḍramī and Ibn Khalaf, from Aḥmad ibn Nafīs, from him. Shaykh Ḥasan heard it from the daughter of al-Wāsiṭī on the basis of the licence she had received from Jaʿfar. He also compiled Ḥadīth Mālik—that which is not contained in the Muwaṭṭaʾ.

Al-Ḥabbāl and Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Manda said: “He died in Ramadan, in the year 381 AH.”

I say: I think he passed away in the prime of life.

Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Khallāl heard the Musnad of the Muwaṭṭaʾ from Jaʿfar al-Hamdānī, and some of his narrations have come down to me through the ʿUthmānīyāt.

322 – al-Zuhri, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAmr *

The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and critical scholar Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAmr al-Baṣrī, known as Ibn Ghulām al-Zuhri.

He travelled widely and heard ḥadith from: Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Ibn Ṣāʿid, and Muḥammad ibn—