Zūlāq al-Miṣrī, eighty years old—he had met al-Ṭaḥāwī and others; the foremost Qur’an reciter in Egypt, Abū Aḥmad ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasnūn al-Sāmarī, who died in Muḥarram; the shaykh Abū Aḥmad ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq ibn Jamīl al-Iṣbahānī, the transmitter of the Musnad of Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, which he heard from his grandfather directly from the author; the Iraqi musnid Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥarbī al-Sukkārī al-Ṣayrafī, who passed away in Shawwāl; the leading Shāfiʿī jurist Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jurjānī, known as al-Khatn—that is, the Ismāʿīlī’s father-in-law; the exemplary preacher Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAṭiyya al-Makkī, author of al-Qūt; the Egyptian ruler al-ʿAzīz billāh Nizār ibn al-Muʿizz Maʿadd al-ʿUbaydī, a Rāfiḍī; and the scholar of the Maghrib, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī al-Mālikī.
414 – Ibn Khurrashīdh Qawlah, Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Iṣbahānī
The shaykh and musnid, Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Khurrashīdh Qawlah al-Iṣbahānī, a merchant, was one of the dependable authorities. He traveled extensively and narrated in Egypt, Mecca, and Baghdad before settling in Egypt.
He studied under Abū Ḥāmid al-Ḥaḍramī and Abū Bakr ibn Ziyād al-Naysābūrī. Among those who transmitted from him were al-ʿAtīqī, Ismāʿīl ibn Rajāʾ al-ʿAsqalānī, Rashāʾ ibn Naẓīf, and many others. Al-Khaṭīb declared him trustworthy.