and Ibn Abī Dāwūd (1)—but this is a mistake.
He said: “He was reliable and truthful, and he lost his eyesight toward the end of his life.”
Those who narrated from him include: ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad al-Shurūṭī, Abū Yaʿlā Ḥamzah ibn al-Ḥasan, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Qāriʾ, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Ṣūfī, Abū Ghālib ibn Bishrān al-Naḥwī, the judge Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ṭayyib ibn Kamārī (3), the jurist Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Shāfiʿī, and Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makhlad al-Bazzāz—the scholars of Wāsiṭ. Ibn Makhlad’s audition from him took place in the year a little over 400 AH.
113 – Ibn Khazafah ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Wāsiṭī
The shaykh, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī (4) ibn Khazafah al-Wāsiṭī, the pharmacist, man of letters, and transmitter of “The Great History” of Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah (5) from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Zaʿfarānī, from him.
He also reported from Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Waṭan and Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Muḥammad ibn Yūnus.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Lālkāʾī (6), Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Bayṭār, and Abū ʿAlī Ghulām