and I shall make my lesson(1) the recitation transmitted by ʿĀṣim,
and—rendered with exact articulation—that of Ḥamzah a constant course;
and in grammar I shall take al-Kisāʾī as my exemplar(2),
then, after him, al-Farrāʾ for as long as I draw breath.
That same year saw the passing of: Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī al-ʿAqīqī, head of Damascus; Bishr ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Bāhilī; Abū Bakr Tabūk ibn al-Ḥasan al-Kilābī; Abū Naṣr al-Ṭūsī, author of al-Lumaʿ; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Bājī al-Ishbīlī; Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Masrūr al-Balkhī; the Mālikī shaykh Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Jallāb; Abū Bakr al-Mufīd; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Warrāq; Muḥammad ibn Bishr, Abū Saʿīd al-Warrāq al-Naysābūrī; the dignitary Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Abī Dhuhl al-ʿUsmī; Abū Aḥmad, the senior ḥākim; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Shikhkhir; and al-Qāsim ibn Khalaf al-Jubayrī al-Ṭarsūsī.
324 – Ibn Ḥammād, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kūfī *
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, instructor, and foremost traditionist of Kūfa: Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥammād ibn Sufyān al-Kūfī.
He related ḥadith from ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maqāniʿī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zaydan al-Bajalī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Anṣārī, and their peers.
Among those who narrated from him were the judge Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Wāsiṭī, Abū Dharr al-Harawī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAtīqī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bishrān, and others.