and al-Khallāl; and his journeys for trade were what enabled him to meet all of these men across such vast territories.

Those who transmitted from him were: ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd the ḥāfiẓ, Tammām al-Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣūrī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī, his son al-Sakan ibn Jumayʿ, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī ʿAqīl, Abū Naṣr ibn Salamah al-Warrāq, Abū Naṣr al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalab al-Khaṭīb, and others.

He was born in the year 305 AH.

It was also said: in 306 AH.

His son stated, “My father Abū al-Ḥusayn began fasting when he was eighteen years old and continued to do so until he passed away.”

Al-Ṣūrī said in one of his fascicles: “Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Jumayʿ informed us; he was a righteous, reliable, and trustworthy shaykh.”

Al-Khaṭīb and others likewise declared him reliable.

I say: he heard from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣafwah in 323 AH, and he attended study sessions in Baghdad in 327 and 328 AH. Of those who remained in Syria he possessed the loftiest chain of transmission, and I have found nothing of his narrations from Madinah.

I read his Muʿjam to Ibn al-Qawwās, who had it from Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Harastānī, in person, in 609 AH; he had received it from Jamāl al-Islām al-Sulamī, from Ibn Ṭalab, from him. He said:

“This is the list of my shaykhs whom I met in the various regions—Mecca, Iraq, Fars, the land of Istakhr, the frontier towns, Diyār-Bakr, Syria, and Egypt. I shall begin with those whose name is Muḥammad…”

Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣanawbari recited to me in Aleppo:

The anguish I endure keeps growing, it has gone beyond all bounds;
What once was playful affection has become a passion profound.