He also heard hadith from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khathʿamī al-Ushnānī, Abū Bakr Ibn Durayd, Ibrāhīm Nifṭawayh, and Abū Rawq al-Hizzānī.
He lived one hundred years.
Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Qāsim al-Azhari and others, while the following recited the Qur’an to him: al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, Abū ʿAlī Ghulām al-Harrās, and a number of students.
Al-ʿAtīqī said, “He was reliable; he died in Kūfah in Jumādā al-Ūlā of the year 402 AH” (1).
Al-Azhari stated, “He was born in Muḥarram of the year 303 AH” (2).
64 – al-Harawānī Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh *
The Imām, erudite scholar, Shaykh of the Ḥanafīs, and judge—Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥātim al-Juʿfī, al-Kūfī, the Ḥanafī, popularly known as al-Harawānī.
He recited the reading of ʿĀṣim to Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Yūnus, the grammarian.
He also heard hadith from Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Muḥāribī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn, and Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Riyāḥ al-Ashjaʿī.
Abū ʿAlī Ghulām al-Harrās read to him.