Among those who narrated from him were Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm—better known as Salla (1)—al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar ibn Yūnus, and Abū Manṣūr ibn Shakruwayh.
73 – Khalf ibn al-Qāsim ibn Sahl, Abū al-Qāsim al-Azdī *
The ḥāfiẓ, meticulous imam, Abū al-Qāsim Ibn al-Dabbāgh al-Azdī, the Andalusian, the Cordoban.
He was born in 325 AH.
In Damascus he heard ḥadith from Abū al-Maymūn ibn Rāshid, ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAqab, and others.
In Egypt he studied under Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Mawt, Ḥamzah al-Ḥāfiẓ, Ibn al-Nāṣiḥ, Salam ibn al-Faḍl, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Ward, and several more.
In Mecca he learned from Bukayr al-Ḥaddād, al-Ājurrī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khuzaʿī.
In Cordoba he received from Muḥammad ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Marwānī and Aḥmad ibn al-Shāmah. He was, in truth, an ocean of transmission.
Those who transmitted from him include ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Farāḍī, Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, and others.
Al-Ḥumaydī said: Ibn al-Dabbāgh compiled “The Musnad of the Ḥadith of Mālik,” “The Musnad of the Ḥadith of Shuʿbah,” “The Kunyas of the Companions,” “The Judgments of Shurayḥ,” the book “The Fearful,” and “The Asceticism of Bishr al-Ḥāfī.” Our shaykh Abū ʿUmar (2) cited him abundantly, preferred him over all his other teachers, and was extravagant in his praise, saying: “In the East he wrote from…"