Hārūn (1) ibn al-Jundī al-Ghassānī, Imam of the Great Mosque of Damascus, who met Khaythamah; the last surviving musnid, Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿUkbarī, the cloth-merchant (2); the judge of Baghdad, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Shawārib (3), who passed away at eighty-eight years of age; the Shāfiʿī master, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Marwazī, known as al-Qaffāl (4); and the transmitter Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Salāmah al-Ṭaḥḥān al-Sutaytī (5), a disciple of Khaythamah.
205 – Ibn Ḥasnūn, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Narsī
The shaykh, scholar, truthful, upright, and virtuous: Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥasnūn al-Narsī, of Baghdad, father of the author of the Mashyakha, Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Narsī. A number of shaykhs emerged from his progeny.
He heard ḥadith from Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Bakhtarī, ʿAlī ibn Idrīs al-Sutūrī, and ʿUthmān ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Sammāk.
Narrations from him were taken by the ḥāfiẓ al-Khaṭīb Abū Bakr—who said, “He was truthful and righteous” (6)—Abū al-Fawāris Ṭarād al-Zaynabī, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿUlwān, his son Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, and others.
He died in 411 AH, in the month of Dhu al-Qaʿdah.