as well as ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿĪsawī ⦗1⦘, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān ⦗2⦘, Abū Ṣādiq ⦗3⦘ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Shādhān, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Jarjarāʾī ⦗4⦘, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Jarīr al-Dashtī, Ibn ʿAqīl al-Bāwardī, and ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdān ⦗5⦘ al-Ahwāzī.
202 – al-Qaṭṭān, Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad
The shaykh, scholar, dependable transmitter, and hadith authority: Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Baghdādī, known as al-Qaṭṭān ⦗6⦘, surnamed al-Azraq.
He related to Abū al-Khaṭīb that he was born in Shawwāl of the year 335 AH ⦗7⦘.
He began hearing ḥadith when he was five years old. Among the shaykhs from whom he received narrations were: Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār, who was his most senior teacher; Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Durustawayh al-Fārisī—from whom he holds a copy of al-Fasawī’s History; Abū Bakr al-Najjād; Abū ʿAmr ibn al-Sammāk; and several others.