ʿAlī al-Dhuhli, al-Khalidi, al-Harawi.
He narrated from Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdawayh al-Marwazi; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥwaṣ al-Dabbūsī—whom he met in Samarkand; al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Fasawī; Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Bakhtarī; Abū Ḥāmid ibn Bilāl; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Shawdhab; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaʿqūb al-Karmānī; Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār; Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm; ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khalf al-Nasafī; Ibn al-Sammāk; and others of their rank.
He copied extensively and labored hard in the quest.
Among those who transmitted from him were Abū Yaʿlā ibn al-Ṣābūnī; Abū Ḥāzim al-ʿAbdūnī, the ḥāfiẓ; Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muʾaddib; Najīb ibn Maymūn al-Wāsitī, later al-Harawī; and many others. Nevertheless, he is not reliable.
Abū Saʿd al-Idrīsī said: “A liar, unworthy of trust.” ⦗1⦘
Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Mustaghfirī likewise mentioned him, stating: “He narrated from Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad al-Bazdawī—the associate of al-Bukhārī.” He then added: “He died in Muḥarram of the year 402 AH.” It is also said that he passed away in 401 AH.
75 – Ibn Turkān, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Tamīmī *
A traditionist, upright and truthful—Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Turkān al-Tamīmī, from Hamadhān, known as al-Khafāf (the leather-dealer).