Ibrāhīm al-ʿUmari; in Antioch from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khalaf al-Ṣaydalānī; in Jaffa from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Khunbash; in Tinnīs (1) from Muʾnis ibn Waṣīf; in Shiraz from Abū al-Ṣaqr Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad; in Damascus from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmārah; in Tarsus from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Umayyah al-Ṭarsūsī; in Raqqa from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Khubzah; at al-Qulzum (2) from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qanqal; in al-Athārib (3) from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAmmārī; in Beirut from Aḥmad ibn Makḥūl al-Bayrūtī; in Biyās (4) from Aḥmad ibn Dīnār; in Ahwaz from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Shujāʿ; in ʿIrqah (5) from Ḥusayn ibn ʿĪsā al-Khazrajī; in Damietta from Khālid ibn Muḥammad; in Qarqīsiyā (6) from Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad; in Jableh from ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAssāl; at al-Ubulla (7) from ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ẓāhirī; at Dayr al-ʿĀqul (8) from ʿUmar (9) ibn Sūrīn; and at Nahr al-Malik (10) from Yazīd ibn Ismāʿīl;
(1) An island in the Egyptian Sea, close to the mainland, situated between al-Farma and Damietta.
(2) A town on the shore of the Yemeni Sea, near Aila (Aqaba), al-Tur, and Madyan; the Bahr al-Qulzum—i.e. the Red Sea—takes its name from it.
(3) A fortress located between Aleppo and Antioch, roughly three farsakhs from Aleppo, with a village of the same name at the foot of its mountain.
(4) A small town east of Antioch and west of al-Masisah, near the sea; it lies two farsakhs from Iskandariyya.
(5) A settlement east of Tripoli, four farsakhs away; it marks the easternmost limit of the Damascus province.
(6) A locality on the Khabur River, six farsakhs from Rahbat Malik ibn Tawk; here the Khabur flows into the Euphrates, placing the town in the triangle formed by the two rivers.
(7) A town on the bank of the Tigris at Greater Basra, in the angle of the gulf that enters the city; it predates Basra itself.
(8) A large village situated ten or more farsakhs from Baghdad.
(9) This is Umar ibn al-Hasan ibn Surin al-Dayr Aquli al-Surini—Sourin being his grandfather—whose biography appears in al-Ansab, 7/187.
(10) A vast district of Baghdad beyond the Nahr Isa; it is said to comprise 360 villages, matching the number of days in the year.