, Ibn ʿAli al-Samman; Ḥatim ibn Muḥammad al-Aṭrābulusi, later known as al-Andalusi; Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzi; Abū Naṣr al-Sijzi; Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī; al-Ḥasan ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Ṣaymarī; Abū Dharr al-Harawī; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Shubāna al-Dīnawarī; Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Tujībī al-Furshī (1); Sulaym al-Rāzī; Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Bundār al-Rāzī; Abū Ṭālib al-ʿUshārī; Abū ʿImrān al-Fārisī; Makkī ibn Abī Ṭālib; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Shujāʿ al-Rabaʿī; Muẓaffar ibn al-Ḥasan, grandson of Ibn Lāl; ʿAlī ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Hamadhānī al-Kisāʾī; and many others.

Abū Dharr (2) said in his Muʿjam: “Trustworthy and firmly reliable.”

Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Nasawī, in the biography of his father Ibrāhīm, wrote: “His son is today the shaykh of Mecca and its leading hadith scholar. He studied alongside his father, devoted himself to the discipline, and his books are sound.”

Al-Sijzī likewise declared him reliable and is on record as saying, “Aḥmad ibn Abī Isḥāq, the judge of Jeddah, narrated to us.”

Al-ʿAtīqī remarked, “He stood alone in his time in the number of shaykhs he had met; he was trustworthy and truthful.”

Abū Naṣr Hibat Allāh ibn Muʿādh al-Sijzī, in his compilation al-Sabʿiyyāt, wrote: “He was one of the foremost men of his age; people traveled to him in his day, and he is reliable.”

I say: Among those who received narration from him were Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, by formal authorization (ijāza), and the last to remain among his students—the transmitter of Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar’s recension—Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn