the Mosuli, the Marjī, and a transmitter from Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī—in fact, he was the last person alive who narrated from him. A large number of scholars received reports from him, among them: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Hamadhānī al-Kisāʾī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Khabbāzī, the ḥāfiẓ; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Raqqī; the judge of Mosul, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Simnānī; the Qur’an-reciter Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī; and Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Ṭawq. I have come across no criticism of him. He was still alive in 390 AH, and he granted ijāza to a number of people, the last of them being al-Qāsim ibn al-Buṣrī. He died—may Allah have mercy on him—sometime in the decade of 410 AH.

9 – Ibn Jinnī, Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUthmān ibn Jinnī al-Mawṣilī

The leading authority on the Arabic language: Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUthmān ibn Jinnī al-Mawṣilī, famed for his many works.