394 – Al-Sukkari, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad
The shaykh, erudite scholar, long-lived master and musnid (chief ḥadīth transmitter) of Iraq: Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Shadhān, al-Ḥimyarī, the Baghdadi of the Ḥarb quarter, known as al-Sukkari. He was also called al-Ṣayrafī (“the money-changer”) and al-Kayyāl (“the measurer”).
He was born in 296 AH.
He heard ḥadīth from: Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣūfī; ʿAbbād ibn ʿAlī al-Sirīnī; ʿAlī ibn Sarrāj; al-Haytham ibn Khalaf; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Baghandī; ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq ibn Zātiyā; al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Balkhī; Abū Khubayb ibn al-Birtī; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥibbān; ʿĪsā ibn Sulaymān; al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAnbar; Shuʿayb ibn Muḥammad al-Dhāriʿ; Abū Ḥafīṣ, the qāḍī of Aleppo; Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Dimashqī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdah the judge; Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Dharīḥ al-ʿUkbarī; and a number of others. He lived to a great age and possessed some singular narrations.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abū l-Qāsim al-Azharī; Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl; the qāḍī Abū l-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAtīqī; Abū l-Qāsim al-Tanūkhī; the qāḍī Abū Yaʿlā Muḥammad ibn al-Farrāʾ; Abū l-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Dajjājī; Abū l-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Gharīq; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Maʾmūn; and Abū l-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqqūr.
Al-Tanūkhī said: “I heard him say, ‘I was born in the year 296, and my first audition was in 303, with al-Ṣūfī.’”