ʿAlī al-Dhuhli, al-Khālidī, al-Harawī. He wrote from nearly three hundred shaykhs, and he was among the most knowledgeable people about the transmitters of ḥadith and the most diligent in recording their reports; in his day he was the leading muḥaddith of al-Andalus (1).

Al-Ḥumaydī said: “Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Masrūr (2) also took notes from him.”

I add: He read the various Qurʾānic modes before a number of scholars, among them Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ, the disciple of Ibn Mujāhid.

He died in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 393 AH.

I read to Muḥammad ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh: Abū al-Qāsim al-Sibt informed us; Khalf the ḥāfiẓ told us; Abū Muḥammad narrated to us, from Abū ʿUmar the ḥāfiẓ, who said: Khalf ibn al-Qāsim reported to us; Muḥammad ibn Mūsā narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Shuʿayb narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Ḥafṣ narrated to us; Jarrāḥ ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us; ʿUmar ibn ʿAmr narrated to us, saying: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn Busr say:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Every supplication remains veiled until its beginning is praise of Allah and blessings upon the Prophet ﷺ; then let him supplicate, and the prayer will be answered thereby.” (3)

Its chain of transmission is murky.

74 – Manṣūr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khālid ibn Aḥmad al-Dhuhli *

The son of Khālid ibn Ḥammād—the ḥāfiẓ, scholar, and well-traveled seeker—Abū