in Mecca; the judge ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī; the ḥadith scholar Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Baḥīrī; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAllāf, the Qur’an reciter; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Dībājī; and Abū Bakr ibn Zunbur, the bookseller.
410 – Ibn Daristawayh, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Dimashqī *
The shaykh, imam, and upright authority: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Daristawayh al-Dimashqī.
He transmitted ḥadith from Muḥammad ibn Khuraym, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jawṣā, Makḥūl al-Bayrūtī, and others.
Those who narrated from him include his son Muḥammad; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥinnāʾī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī; Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥinnāʾī; and Ibrāhīm ibn al-Khaḍir al-Ṣāʾigh.
Al-Kattānī dated his death to Rabīʿ al-Ākhir 395 AH and said, “He was reliable and firmly grounded—may Allah have mercy on him.”
411 – Abū Muslim the Scribe, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī **
The shaykh, scholar, Qur’an reciter, ḥadith transmitter, and inveterate traveler: Abū Muslim Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Baghdādī, known as “the Scribe,” who settled in Egypt.
He related ḥadith from Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd, Ibn Ṣāʿid, Yazīd ibn al-Haytham, Abū Bakr ibn Mujāhid, Abū Bakr ibn Durayd, Abū ʿĪsā ibn Qaṭn, Abū Bakr ibn al-Anbārī, Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad—the brother of Zubayr the ḥāfiẓ—and Abū