of the Shāfiʿīs, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Bāfī (1) al-Bukhārī of Baghdad—he was the last of Abū Isḥāq al-Marwazī’s pupils; and Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Naṣr al-Babbaghāʾ, the poet (2); and ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣaydalanī (3), who lived long enough to meet Ibn Ṣāʿid.
60 – The ʿAlawī, Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Dāwūd*
The imām, the sayyid, the ḥadīth scholar, the trustworthy narrator, the musnid of Khurāsān: Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Dāwūd ibn ʿAlī al-ʿAlawī, al-Ḥasanī, from Naysābūr—of noble lineage and the foremost of the Prophetic descendants.
He heard ḥadīth from: Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq al-Marwazī, the companion of ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr; Abū Ḥāmid ibn al-Sharqī; his brother ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Jamīl; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Ḥamduwayh al-Ghāzī; Abū Bakr ibn Dallūyah al-Daqqāq; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qaṭṭān; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Bālūyah; and several others.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Ḥākim; Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī—his senior-most shaykh; Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Ṣaffār; Abū ʿUbayd Ṣakhr ibn Muḥammad; Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʿīl ibn Zāhir; Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ṣarrām; ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Maḥmī; ʿUmar ibn Shāh, the Qur’an-reciter; Shabīb ibn Aḥmad al-Bastīghī; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mukram al-Ṣaydalanī; Mūsā ibn ʿImrān al-Anṣārī; and Abū Ṣāliḥ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik.