and the muʾadhdhin; Fāṭimah daughter of Abū ʿAlī al-Daqqāq; and many others besides them.

Al-Ḥākim said: “He was a man of lofty aspiration and manifest devotion. When asked to relate ḥadīth he would refuse, until at last I convened a dictation session for him and selected one thousand ḥadīth. A thousand inkwells were counted in his gathering. He then narrated and dictated for three years, and he died suddenly in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of the year 401 AH (1).”

His brother:

61 – The Sayyid Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī *

He was the younger of the two.

He heard ḥadīth from: Ibn Bilāl and Abū Bakr al-Qaṭṭān.

Narrated from him: al-Ḥākim, who said that he died in 393 AH. He left scholarly traces and was well known in Nīshābūr, living a little over seventy years.

I say: al-Ḥākim also said, “Abū ʿAlī narrated to us from his own audition—of the Ṣaḥīḥ—and he cited a ḥadīth.”

62 – Ibn Zanbīl, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad **

The venerable shaykh and trustworthy musnid: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Zanbīl al-Nahāwandī.

He arrived in Hamadhān in Ramaḍān of the year 402 AH and narrated (al-Tārīkh).

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