al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Kāmil (1).
178 – Al-Ḥaffār, Abū al-Fath Hilāl ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar
The shaykh, reliable transmitter, and musnid of Baghdad: Abū al-Fath Hilāl ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Saʿdān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Māhūyah ibn Mihyār ibn al-Marzbān al-Kaskari, later al-Baghdādī (2).
Born: 322 AH.
He studied with: al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbbās al-Qaṭṭān—associate of Aḥmad ibn al-Miqdām al-ʿIjlī, of whose pupils Hilāl was the last—as well as with Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Bakhṭarī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Wāʿiẓ, ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad al-Daqqāq, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAlī al-Khuzāʿī, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb, Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī, Abū Naṣr ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Saʿīd al-Sijzī, the chief Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Thaqafī, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Busrī, Abū al-Faḍl ʿUmar ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Baqqāl, ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan, Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qawwās, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muslima, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Zaynah, Abū al-Fawāris Ṭirād al-Zaynabī (3), Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Anṣārī, and many others.