al-Muhammadabadi, Abu al-ʿAbbas al-Asamm, Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Saffar, al-Hasan ibn Yaʿqub al-Bukhari, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Sulaym al-Qadi; ʿAbd al-Razzaq ibn ʿAbd al-Karim al-Hasanabadi (1); Abu Masʿud Sulayman ibn Ibrahim al-Hafiz; Abu ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn Mandah; Sahl ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ghazi; Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rara (2); Mahmud ibn Jaʿfar al-Kawsaj; the chief al-Qasim ibn al-Fadl; Abu Nasr ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad al-Simsar; Rajaʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn Qulawayh; and others.
This Simsar was the last of them, and his transmission of the Thaqafiyyat is among the highest-ranked chains.
I have in my possession four sessions from his dictations (3).
He passed away in Isfahan, in the month of Rajab, in the year 408 AH, at the age of eighty-nine.
Ahmad ibn Ishaq al-Hamadhani informed us, saying: Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Maʾmuni informed us; Abu Tahir al-Hafiz informed us; Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Thaqafi informed us; Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Jurjani informed us; Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Qattan narrated to us; Ahmad ibn al-Azhar narrated to us; Zamʿah ibn Salih, on the authority of ʿAbd Allah ibn Tawus, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, who said:
The Prophet ﷺ said, “When the heat becomes intense, delay the prayer until it cools down, for the severity of the heat is but a breath from Hell.” (4)