as well as from Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd al-Zubayrī and the erudite scholar Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Naḥḥās.

Among those who transmitted from him were Fāris ibn Aḥmad al-Ḍarīr, Abū ʿAmr ad-Dānī, and several others. Ad-Dānī remarks, “We wrote down a great deal from him on the variant readings (qirāʾāt) and on hadith.” He passed away in 399 AH, though another report places his death in Shaʿbān 400 AH.

The most senior of his teachers was Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Madīnī, a companion of Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā; the scholars of Egypt narrated from him.

71 – Ibn Abī ʿImrān, Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad al-Harawī al-Ṣarrām *
The Imām, exemplar, godly scholar, hadith master, and indefatigable traveler—Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿImrān al-Harawī, known as al-Ṣarrām (1), a long-term resident of Mecca and one of the teachers of the Sacred Mosque.

He studied under Khaythama ibn Sulaymān, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maḥbūbī, Aḥmad ibn Bundār, Daʿlaj al-Sijzī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, and many others. A great repository of hadith, he narrated an enormous amount while in Mecca.

Those who reported from him included Abū Yaʿqūb al-Qarrāb, Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣbahānī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥinnāʾī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī, Abū al-Faḍl ibn Bundār al-Rāzī, and others.