, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyā ibn Jumayʿ al-Ghassānī al-Ṣaydāwī, the author of al-Muʿjam (1).
He heard hadith in Mecca from Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī; in Medina—though it is possible he recorded nothing there; in Baghdad from al-Maḥāmilī, Ibn Makhlad, al-Ḥusayn ibn Saʿīd al-Muṭbaqī, Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Athram, Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Jawzajānī, and many others.
In Kufa he studied under the ḥadith master Ibn ʿUqda; in Basra under Abū Rūq al-Hizzānī and Wahb ibn Muḥammad; in Wāsiṭ under Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿdān; in Kafarbiyyā (2) under Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam al-Bazzār; in Balad (3) under Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Imām; in Ramla under Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr, the ḥadith master; and in Egypt under Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khāmī, along with several others.
He received transmission in Ṣaydā from Aḥmad ibn Rayḥān; in Ṣūr (Tyre) from Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Fārisī and Aḥmad ibn Hishām ibn al-Layth; in Manbij from Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf; in Aleppo from Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd al-Wazzān; in Sīrāf (4) from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Aṣbahānī; and in Rāmahurmuz (5) from Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khallād, the ḥadith master.
At al-Maṣṣīṣa he heard from Ḥayyān ibn Bishr the judge; at ʿAyn Zarbah (6) from Ḥasnūn ibn Muḥammad; at Ṭarābulus (Tripoli) from Khaythama al-Qurashī; and in Mosul from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn