their own signatures immediately beneath his—among them the hand of Abū Jaʿfar al-ʿAzāʾimī.

Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī the Qur’an-reciter likewise narrated to us (ḥ).

ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān al-Barbarī also narrated to us, as did Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maḥmūdī; they said:
“Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī informed us; al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl informed us; the ḥāfiẓ Abū Ḥāzim dictated to us; Abū ʿAmr ibn Maṭar narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī informed us; and Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā narrated:
‘I said to Mālik, “Did ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr relate to you—from ʿAmr ibn Sulaym al-Zuraqī—from Abū Qatādah (may Allah be pleased with him):
that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray while carrying Umāmah bint Zaynab, the daughter of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ by Abū al-ʿĀṣ ibn al-Rabīʿ; when he stood he would hold her, and when he went into prostration he would set her down?”’
He replied, “Yes.”
Agreed upon. (1)

The ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Wakhshī said: “Abū Ḥāzim al-ʿAbduwiyy died on the day of Eid al-Fiṭr in 417 AH.”

I add: In that same year there also passed away the authority of Baghdad, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā al-Sukkarī (2); the foremost reciter of the time, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ ibn al-Ḥammāmī (3); and the transmitter of Damascus, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn