most of them in his own handwriting. He went on to say, “His very script is the proof of the reliability of what he transmitted and the rigor of his precision.”

He kept on attending and listening to hadith sessions until he passed away. ʿAtīqī told me, “He is trustworthy and dependable; I have never seen anyone read hadith more beautifully than he.” (1)

Ibn al-Furāt died in Shawwāl of 384 AH, just shy of seventy years of age.

– Ibn Ḥammād, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kūfī * (repeated under no. 324)
The ḥāfiẓ and leading hadith scholar of Kūfa, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥammād ibn Sufyān al-Kūfī.

He narrated from: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zaydān al-Bajalī, ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maqāniʿī, and Muḥammad ibn Dulayl.

Those who narrated from him include: Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Wāsiṭī, Abū Dharr al-Harawī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAtīqī, and several others who traveled to meet him.

He too died in 384 AH.

366 – Ibn al-Muzakkī, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Naysābūrī *
The imām, exemplar, and devout scholar, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad, son of the elder al-Muzakkī, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Naysābūrī.

He was born in the year twenty-odd and three hundred (c. 323 AH).